1.0 link 156098 <![CDATA[Inaugural Hope, but America Is in Shock]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-gardels/inaugural-hope-but-americ_b_156098.html America is in shock. It is not because of the unusual sight of the first black president taking up residence in the White House. Barack Obama's profile, after all, is more familiar to the diverse population of today's ethnically and racially hybrid America than the fast-disappearing WASP identity of George W. Bush. Sooner or later, but always, politics codifies cultural change, not the other way around. America is in shock because our economic and financial landscape is suddenly unrecognizable.

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