A Quilt Of A Country Analysis

Although there are differences in the themes of "A Quilt of a Country" and "We're All in the Telephone Book". There are also many similarities between them.
Both of these text show that no matter what your race is or how much money you have, we are all Americans. In the “A Quilt of a Country”, the author states “What is the point of a nation in which one part seems to be always on the verge of fisticuffs with another, blacks and whites, gays and straights, left and right”. The author of “We’re All in the Telephone Book” states something similar, “We’re all in the telephone book, There’s no priority–“. I think these are similar because they both state no matter what you appear to be to anyone else, you are an American. Therefor we all should