When Harry Met Barry: The BBC Obama Interview - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United States United."

CEYLAN YEGINSU, New York Times

Image (not from article) from, with caption: A speculative Balkanization of the United States and its neighbors [JB note:  [JB note: Am somewhat puzzled by the some of the flags on this imaginative map  ...]

Excerpt:

Mr. Obama warned against the irresponsible use of social media by people in positions of power and expressed his concern about a future in which facts were discarded.

“One of the dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities. They can be cocooned in information that reinforces their current biases.”

“The question has to do with how do we harness this technology in a way that allows a multiplicity of voices, allows a diversity of views, but doesn’t lead to a Balkanization  of society [JB emphasis] and allows ways of finding common ground.” ...