Red States Are a Nation Unto Themselves, Not Just on Social Policy But On Economics, Too

James Surowiecki
4 min readAug 1, 2022

CNN’s Ron Brownstein wrote an interesting piece this week arguing that when it comes to social policy, red states are building “a nation within a nation.” These states, Brownstein wrote, are “moving social policy sharply to the right within their borders on issues from abortion to LGBTQ rights and classroom censorship, while simultaneously…

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James Surowiecki

I’m the author of The Wisdom of Crowds. I’ve been a business columnist for Slate and The New Yorker and written for a wide range of other publications.