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'''Segmented Democracy:'''
"[[Douglas W. Rae]] has an essay titled ''Democratic Liberty and the Tyrannies of Place,'' which points to the fact that we're becoming an increasingly segmented democracy. That is, people tend to spend time around people that are like themselves. Of course, CIDs greatly facilitate that, because people will sort by income - or if you go to the ones in Florida, often by [[ethnic group]] - into these relatively [[Housing segregation in the United States|homogenous]], certainly financially homogenous, groups. We know from [[Cass R. Sunstein]] that like-minded people, if they just talk to one another, tend to become more [[Extremism|extreme]]. So if we get an increasingly segmented democracy of people only hanging around people who look and talk like themselves, this will reinforce a lot of the divisions which are contributing to the [[Political polarization|polarization]] of the electorate. This reinforces the "out of sight, out of mind" mentally about people not like themselves."<ref name="Privatizing Government I: Utilities, Eminent Domain, and Local Government"/>
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