About American Communities Project
The truth is there is no “Real America. ”
In an age of American self-sorting and bubble realities, there is no good way to understand the different worlds that people in the United States call their homes. Even within the same state, community differences can be stark. A big city often has more in common with a metro area 500 miles away that it does with the county next door.
We need a better way of understanding the different types of communities that make up America so we can develop new and better ways of recognizing and measuring what works and what does not.
This is what American Communities Project (ACP) has been doing since 2012.