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To: Lane3 who wrote (67786)	5/22/2008 6:53:42 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 543283

Looking back at the article it doesn't use the term "partisan split", or at least your quote of it does not, but it does use ""polarization", and "partisanship" and talks about seeing the other side as "hellbent on the country’s annihilation" Looking up the original article from another post newyorker.com I see such comments as "Perlstein argues that the politics of “Nixonland” will endure for at least another generation. On his final page, he writes, “Do Americans not hate each other enough to fantasize about killing one another, in cold blood, over political and cultural disagreements? It would be hard to argue they do not.” Yet the polarization of America, which we now call the “culture wars,” has been dissipating for a long time." "The culture wars", and "polarization of America" are hardly creations of Nixon or Buchanan, even though they both participated in the polarization. More generally the article is itself very partisan, its a long attack on conservatives and Republicans.