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Hartshorne’s Functional Approach and Current American Politics
One of the things we will study in Political Geography is Steven Hartshorne’s Functional Approach. Hartshorne’s Functional Approach is elegantly simple. First, countries must have a reason for being. Second for a country to stay together as a country centripetal forces that bring the citizens together must outweigh centrifugal forces which tear the people apart.
You will then watch a PBS Frontline episode entitled Documenting Hate: New American Nazis which you can stream at the website
Assignment
You will write a 500 word (two pages double spaced) reflection paper relating Hartshorne’s Functional Approach to the current state of American politics to include the rise of white nationalist/supremacist.
