About 86 % of the population of major metro areas live in suburbs or exurbs. Of african americans and latinos, have been relocating to suburbs at much higher rates than whites. As people move, we're more likely to see people with diverse opinions and backgrounds coming into contact with one another. And that is potentially great benefit to a country that feels extremely politically divided.
The flood of people out of cities is unlike anything since the suburbanisation of the 1950s; we examine the inevitable economic and political consequences. After years of reporting our correspondent concludes that the mutual disdain of a country’s northern and southern halves is a curious human universal. And a sojourn to fact-check Julius Caesar’s accounts of his triumphs in France.
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