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To: Lane3 who wrote (52902)	7/5/2004 7:33:57 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793622

I'm most of the way through Brooks's latest. One factoid he gives, something about few blue staters being able to name more than five NASCAR drivers. Although we are red staters, other than Dale Earnhart (sp?) nobody in my family can name even one. Other than Kobe Bryan and Shaq, no pro basketball players. Other than Sammy Sosa and Mark McGuire, no pro baseball players. Not one pro football player. I tried this on them last night. I can name all nine Supreme Court justices, of course, and even name which one is talking when I hear their voices on the radio.

To: Lane3 who wrote (52902)	7/5/2004 8:15:51 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793622

Brooks is on in about an hour and twenty minutes. 9:29Pm ET. David Brooks spoke about the growth of suburbs in America and described the different suburban "zones" he discovered while researching his book, On Paradise Drive, published by Simon and Schuster. In his book, he argues that because Americans are increasingly moving to suburban areas where, to a large extent, only like-minded individuals live, the country is becoming extremely divided. A reflection of this development, he says, can been seen in the rhetoric of the two major political parties in Washington. Mr. Brooks added that while the country is divided politically, there exists a common energy that continues to define us as Americans. Afterwards, Mr. Brooks took questions from the audience. This view ties in exactly with the point of the "Bell Curve," which got lost in the racial part of the book. The point was that people of similiar intelligence and interests flock together. They were upset about it, but it is a perfectly normal reaction. We are getting a lot of "view with alarm," from the educators about the fact that higher income people have more kids in college. Higher income people have higher intelligence, viewed as a group. It is normal and natural that they would have higher intelligence kids who would be both pressured and want to finish college.