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2023-03-22 15:20:48
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Just gonna post some excerpts from the paper that I found interesting.

>Voter turnout, newspaper readership, membership in choral societies and football clubs--these were the hallmarks of a successful region.
>Consider the well-known decline in turnout in national elections over the last three decades
>From a relative high point in the early 1960s, voter turnout had by 1990 declined by nearly a quarter;
>Church-related groups constitute the most common type of organization joined by Americans; they are especially popular with women.
>Other types of organizations frequently joined by women include school-service groups (mostly parent-teacher associations), sports groups, professional societies, and literary societies. Among men, sports clubs, labor unions, professional societies, fraternal groups, veterans' groups, and service clubs are all relatively popular.
>For example, national environmental organizations (like the Sierra Club) and feminist groups (like the National Organization for Women) grew rapidly
>An even more dramatic example (of increase) is the American Association of Retired Persons.
>The bond between any two members of the Sierra Club is less like the bond between any two members of a gardening club and more like the bond between any two Red Sox fans (or perhaps any two devoted Honda owners): they root for the same team and they share some of the same interests, but they are unaware of each other's existence.
>Their ties, in short, are to common symbols, common leaders, and perhaps common ideals, but not to one another.
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