Time Magazine has an interesting article that attempts to paint a portrait of the Average American, based on demographic data. Subsequent pages of the article have some interesting maps and charts.
The TIME article reads more like propaganda than news. Despite the illusion, this is not a nation of happy campers. Divided support for the current crop of presidential candidates is merely symptomatic of the deep divisions. Housing foreclosures, widespread disruptive behavior among public school students, numerous cases of predatory behavior among teachers, rampant child abuse in non-traditional families, an obscene number of persons incarcerated, returning veterans cast aside like yesterday’s trash, and an all but despised President in the White House also help to paint a very different picture of the United States today.
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The TIME article reads more like propaganda than news. Despite the illusion, this is not a nation of happy campers. Divided support for the current crop of presidential candidates is merely symptomatic of the deep divisions. Housing foreclosures, widespread disruptive behavior among public school students, numerous cases of predatory behavior among teachers, rampant child abuse in non-traditional families, an obscene number of persons incarcerated, returning veterans cast aside like yesterday’s trash, and an all but despised President in the White House also help to paint a very different picture of the United States today.