This is How a Road Gets Made

I swim in a pretty small social pond. It is mainly comprised of middle class, moderate-to-well educated, straight, white people. Most of us are fiscally conservative, and are socially moderate-to-liberal. Of my core group of friends, over half would self-identify as some strain of Protestant Christian. We are all gainfully employed, all with children, mortgages, and car payments, and most of us are able to take pretty decent vacations. We are rather homogeneous.

You know what you get when you...