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Presidential politics in a changing America.

Hello again, I'm Orinalini, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International,

a daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

Presidential candidates appeal to the working class and ordinary people with the promise of unifying America for the common good. But that turns out to mean different things in different places, and it's not just a matter of red states versus blue. Wealth and mobility have freed Americans to move wherever they want to, and they end up with people just like themselves, culturally, as well as politically.

On to the point, is segregation by lifestyle dividing cities and neighborhoods?

Whatever happened to class? Is political unification possible anymore?

On reporter's notebook later on, the man who discovered LSD died

today at 102. First, here's the news. Support for To the Point comes from subscribers of KCRW Santa Monica

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Hello again. Why we're not only back with To the Point. America as a whole is more diverse than ever,

but it's increasingly crowded with cities, even neighborhoods, where everybody thinks like everybody else.

On To the Point, what does that mean for the presidential campaigns? Is political unification a distant dream? On reporter's notebook,

the life and death of Albert Hoffman, who accidentally discovered LSD and started the psychedelic

generation. First, this news update. Just yesterday, President Bush refused to use the word recession,

which traditionally means two consecutive quarters of economic decline.

Today, the Commerce Department reported that the gross domestic product did grow at the end of last year, but by only six-tenths of one percent.

Kelly Evans, as economics reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and Kelly, thanks for joining us today.

Thanks for having me.

Why is their role of this reluctance to call it recession?

Now, whatever you call it, things are in pretty grim as condition. Well, that's the takeaway point, is that does it really

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