Steven Johnson could drunkenly scratch haikus onto the side of a cardboard box and I'd read them, because whether I agree with what he writes or not, it makes me think in new ways. Lucky for me he's got a new Times Select kinda-blog/kinda-column thing called Urban Planet.
Today's entry says that we should think less about red vs. blue and more about country vs. city. I will say that while I don't disagree with that premise, Johnson glosses over the question of suburbs and exurbs. As I read the geographic break-down -- and honestly, after spending sometime digging through census.gov, I'm not sure even the Census Bureau really has a firm grasp on it -- while 80% of Americans do live in metropolitan areas, only 30% actually live in the "central city" that makes the it count as a metro area in the first place. So it's not as if only 1 out of 5 of us is living way out in the sticks, and the other four of us are pounding the pavement in Chelsea or Nob Hill each day.
Today's entry says that we should think less about red vs. blue and more about country vs. city. I will say that while I don't disagree with that premise, Johnson glosses over the question of suburbs and exurbs. As I read the geographic break-down -- and honestly, after spending sometime digging through census.gov, I'm not sure even the Census Bureau really has a firm grasp on it -- while 80% of Americans do live in metropolitan areas, only 30% actually live in the "central city" that makes the it count as a metro area in the first place. So it's not as if only 1 out of 5 of us is living way out in the sticks, and the other four of us are pounding the pavement in Chelsea or Nob Hill each day.
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