Click above to read the rest. The writer of the piece is the magnificent scholar/journalist Melissa Harris-Lacewell, whom you may remember from her throw down with Gloria Steinem during the election.
Sigh. Because Typepad is going through another period of suckage, only the first graph in the linked stuff above ACTUALLY links. I'm tired of fussing with it. This is a long-running problem they've not yet managed to fix.

