Avoiding Drift Toward 2nd Civil War

Spotlighted by PBS News Hour, Alamance County, NC is bridging the partisan divide. How about your community?

It’s one of the most polarized and divided communities in the U.S. And yet it’s rediscovering what residents hold in common.

In 2020, shortly before I moved from Burlington, NC, I wrote a profile of the town and Alamance County as representative of the hyper-partisan divide in the U.S., a cultural blend of the Old South, minority aspirations, immigratio…