Retro vs. Metro

Very interesting looking site, pointed out to me by Dave over the phone tonight, here at retrovsmetro.org. It is the website (with a requsite blog) for the book The Great Divide: Retro vs. Metro America, by John Sperling, who apparently is the founder of the University of Phoenix. (He also appears to have had some considerable help with the political economy stuff.)

What Dave specifically mentioned was an ad of theirs that had been in the major newspapers this week. This press release page seems to be what he was talking about.

From their blurb on Amazon.com:

The Great Divide explains why America is so bitterly divided and how it is really two countries whose people, with different economic interests, think and vote differently. It explains why Congress gave the lion’s share of anti-terrorism funds to small states with low probability of terrorist attack “while California, Florida, Illinois, New York, and Texas – with dense high-rise cities, mammoth seaports and airports, and nuclear generating plants – proportionally receive the least.” It explains how to stop sending jobs overseas and why political power is in the hands of Republicans who pander to a predominantly white, fundamentalist Christian constituency while sending massive subsidies to campaign contributors – oil, gas, coal, logging, and farm corporations. A call to action for change, the book offers a detailed blueprint for reconstructing America the way our Founding Fathers imagined it could be.