One Nation Slightly Divisible David Brooks Analysis

What makes the United States unique and great is not a pledge, a flag, or a song, all of which are more properly labeled culturally transitory symbols of patriotism. The flag, the songs, the Pledge and all the rest of the patriotic symbols are mere surrogates for the Constitution and the citizens who lived, worked, and died preserving the Constitution. The USA is the summation of many ethnic, religious and political backgrounds. David Brooks’ motivation in writing “One Nation, Slightly Divisible” included the goal of finding the underlying cause of the divide and determining the impacts of socio-cultural or socio-political differences to national solidarity. Concluding that the differences between Red America and Blue America may be distinct,