In this AMAC Magazine Exclusive article
Robert B. Charles compares the differences between “woke” cities, and those that are not.
A Tale of Two Cities
In 1859, Charles Dickens wrote a novel entitled A Tale of Two Cities, set during the French Revolution’s slide into darkness. Oddly, the title fits our times. Increasingly, we have become a nation characterized by “a tale of two cities,” one painfully “woke,” the other intentionally not.
With 100,000 cities to choose from, picking for contrast is like picking a floating duck at the fair, hoping to get a match. Cities divide by political, geographic, economic, ethnic, and countless demographic lines, some coastal and “progressive,” some inland and traditional. Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco, California, are paradigms of “woke” culture, followed by…
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