More involved and passion that i became. We ran across all kinds of interesting things. If you go back to the sociology journals, we found an article where sociologists documented that about half of the people who got married in 1940 in a couple of major metropolitan areas grew up within ten blocks of each other. 75 percent of the people who got married corrupt within 20 blocks of each other. American other. American life has really changed since then. People used to be embedded in the geographical community, a physical space where they were in contact with each other on a regular basis. Today if you survey people getting married there are members of multiple communities, members of virtual communities, communities, and there are members of a Hometown College community. American life has changed, and that Community Stability was something will was well was interested in. We documented through discovering this kind of research that the social factors have sabotaged our ability to suppor
College community. Their communities are all over the place geographically. So American Life has changed in that Community Stability ascent he will with interest that in. We just kind of documented through discovering this kind of research that the social factors have kind of sabotage our ability to support these kinds of close refrigerator relationships. What we discovered to was mobility and american culture, really sabotages this relationship. So at the time were writing, the statistics were about warty three, 45 billion americans moving every year. That kind of relocation really takes a toll on our relational health. If sabotages are relational network. So we are having to take these relational hits every time we move around. We believe americans dont really consider the relational risks to the extent that they ought to in terms of taking off and moving around like that. We move for all kinds of reasons. We think we probably have taken this to lately. So we got into the mobility st
Forces. Um, and that was sort of my goal, my goal with the book. As far as the consumer thing, i just think, yeah, its very pervasive in our chul you cultu, and one of the counterarguments to the book has always been like, well, convenience. Amazon is convenient, and convenience is a consumer value, and i think we need to push back on that as something that, you know, underpins a lot of our choices and our activities. Right. And, frank foer, ill let you get the last word in on that. Right. We have that, we have certain expectations about the stuff that we get. And its shaped by the world that we live in and this marketplace. We expect that we should get everything as cheaply as possible and as efficiently as possibly. And to some extent those are tenets of capitalism. But they havent always been tenets of american political economy. There have been moments in our past, in our notsodistant past where we said, okay, its not necessarily the most important thing to get things as cheaply as
Cspan three. This year cspan is touring cities across the country, exploring American History. Recent visit to lafayette and West Lafayette indiana. You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend, on cspan three. The development of canals and railroads was important to the early growth of lafayette. We visited the big depot to learn more about the role of transportation in the citys history. The first one got here from ft. Wayne in 1843. Moving the wabash river down to the ohio river and up to toledo. It was possible to go by canal boat for the entire distance. It was possible to go up to new york city or any place on the great lakes. That was significant because this was a transfer point. The farmers to bring their grain. There were animals that could be processed here, there were various packing plants here that could transfer those products, the slaughtered animals, the packing in the grain canal boats and later onto the railroad to finish off the canal. Trains cam
Programming on American History every weekend on cspan3. Follow us on twitter for information on our schedule, upcoming programs, and to keep up with the latest history news. Welcome to lafayette and West Lafayette, indiana, located on the wabash river. West lafayette is home to Purdue University. With the help of our Comcast Cable partners, over the next hour and 45 minutes, we will look at the history of the cities. Learn about William Henry harrison and the battle of tippecanoe. It was cold and rainy, it was early november. The troops were low on provisions. They had limited manpower and equipment. Harrison complained about his shortage of axis and their poor quality in the building of Fort Harrison on the way up. He had the troops build bonfires to keep them warm and ward off the rainfall, but had them sleep in battle conditions fully dressed on their weapons. Videoer, visit cspans archives which houses over 200,000 hours of Public Affairs programming. The archives started as an id