{"id":54228,"date":"2024-09-04T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T05:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=54228"},"modified":"2024-09-03T09:20:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T13:20:02","slug":"qotd-the-modern-tribal-divide-the-somewheres-versus-the-anywheres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/09\/04\/qotd-the-modern-tribal-divide-the-somewheres-versus-the-anywheres\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The modern tribal divide &#8211; the &#8220;Somewheres&#8221; versus the &#8220;Anywheres&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 25px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>In his book <em>The Road to Somewhere<\/em>, my colleague David Goodhart identified two broad political tribes \u2013 those who see the world from Anywhere and those who see the world from Somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Boris Johnson&#8217;s election victory has once again brought this divide to the surface.<\/p>\n<p>Anywheres tend to be younger and place more value on career and education \u2013 that is, they see themselves in terms of what they have achieved. They are also more comfortable with ethnic diversity and mass immigration, precisely because their identities are less rooted to place and group.<\/p>\n<p>Somewheres, by contrast, are older and place greater value on the communities in which they live. This is not to say that Anywheres do not care about their community. Rather, Anywheres can see themselves prospering in any community.<\/p>\n<p>Goodhart estimates that around 50 per cent of the population are Somewheres, 25 per cent are Anywheres, and the remainder occupy the grey area between the two camps. Both worldviews are perfectly legitimate, but the problem is that they can conflict.<\/p>\n<p>From sitting in seminar after seminar, packed with policymakers, politicians, journalists and academics, Goodhart became painfully aware of how much the Anywhere view dominates public discussion, despite being a minority view.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Norrie, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiked-online.com\/2020\/01\/14\/the-revenge-of-the-somewheres\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The revenge of the Somewheres&#8221;, <em>Spiked<\/em><\/a>, 2020-01-13.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his book The Road to Somewhere, my colleague David Goodhart identified two broad political tribes \u2013 those who see the world from Anywhere and those who see the world from Somewhere. Boris Johnson&#8217;s election victory has once again brought this divide to the surface. Anywheres tend to be younger and place more value on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,62,53,41],"tags":[262,576,114],"class_list":["post-54228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-europe","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-culture","tag-philosophy","tag-separatism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-e6E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91331,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54228\/revisions\/91331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}