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CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley

A Nation Divided?

CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley

CBS News

Society & Culture, News Commentary, News

4.3944 Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In a rebroadcast of our special Emmy Award-nominated broadcast, "A Nation Divided?," Ted Koppel explores the ways in which America has drifted apart, and how we can still come together. Stories include: Why some Oregonians want to move the border to become part of Idaho; a visit to Teton County, Wyoming, home to the widest income divide in America; conversations with musician-activist John Legend, and TV producer Norman Lear; an examination of why blue collar jobs are stigmatized; a look back on our country's violent political history; the polarization generated by talk radio, and the corrosive effects of social media; and a workshop held by Braver Angels, a non-profit aimed at bringing Red and Blue Americans together.

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0:56.0

When we first brought you this program almost a year ago, we posed the question, are we

1:02.0

a nation divided? That already seems sadly outdated. Are we divided? Of course we are.

1:09.0

When a former President of the United States is facing four criminal

1:13.4

indictments, at the same time that he remains a runaway favorite to be nominated by the Republican

1:19.8

party as its candidate to be the next president of the United States, the one thing you can say

1:26.5

without fear of contradiction is that on this

1:29.7

subject at least, we are a nation divided. So, is that it, Ted? Are you suggesting that we

1:37.6

settle in for 90 minutes of gloom and doom? Absolutely not. This is, after all, Sunday morning, a program that many of you have

1:47.8

come to love over the years precisely because it revels in America's diversity and good humor.

1:55.0

Indeed, even in the worst of times, what has saved us from slipping entirely over the edge has been

2:02.4

that American sense of humor, our ability to laugh at ourselves.

2:08.0

And more than 50 years ago, this guy, Archie Bunker, walked the razor's edge into tens of millions

2:16.5

of American homes.

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