In the article “People Like Us,” columnist David Brooks uses first-hand accounts and statistics to outline various scenarios in which he claims America extols the virtues of diversity, while the country’s regions and neighborhoods instead provide an unvarying framework for life. He asserts that the modern American is now free to move about the country without old-fashioned ties to original support networks (career steadiness, family, faith roots, etc.), yet even in that geographical freedom, one infrequently branches out far from racial familiarity or one’s other, existing comfort zones. The individual may resettle their family in a new city or state, but studies show one attracts, and is attracted to, others who believe, behave, buy, vote,
