A Look at our Patchwork Nation

It's often said that America is a divided country, but it's not just a matter of rich and poor or of Red and Blue. A new book argues that the "real" America is a lot more complex, and it identifies no less that 12 types of communities that experience the world and the economy in different ways. It's called

Our Patchwork Nation: the Surprising Truth about the "Real" America

. Its co-author,

Dante Chinni, is director of the

Patchwork Nation project, a collaboration of the Christian Science Monitor and PBS

NewsHour, funded by the Knight Foundation.