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9/16/09: Civility in America

photo: DB*Photography/Creative Commons via flickr
photo: DB*Photography/Creative Commons via flickr

By Doug Fabrizio

Salt Lake City, Utah – Tuesday, the House admonished Rep Joe Wilson of South Carolina for his outburst during Obama's health care address to Congress. Perhaps not surprisingly, the resolution to censure him played out largely along party lines. Incivility seems to be a hallmark of our day - and the scholar Eric Uslaner says that while it's not the first time Americans have been at such odds - the conditions that helped to heal past divides just don't exist today. Wednesday, Uslaner joins Doug to explain.

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