Bird of Prey said:
Can we accurately broad brush any group of people in this country anymore?
The phrase "accurately broadbrush" strikes me as an oxymoron.
Obviously some people find the terms useful, or we wouldn't still be using them. However, to me, it seems when you try and and divide up a large population into a very limited number of categories, the categories will be so broad as to render them almost meaningless. (Obviously I'm not a political scientist.
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For example, I saw Bill O'Reilly doing an interview about his latest book, in the interview he was explaining that he sees the U.S. as being divided into religious traditionalists and secular progressives.
My first reaction was, what about people who are religious progressives or secular traditionalists?
I think there tends to be more in common than people would like to think.
Ok, probably more of a warm and fuzzy and Kum-Ba-Yah answer than you were looking for.