Overview The public is divided over the not guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman trial and over the conversation about race that has surrounded it. The

Seth Dixon‘s insight:

Sometimes people refer to the ‘culture of the United States’ or the ‘geography of Florida’ in the singular.  While this is grammatically correct, it obscures the reality that there are many ‘cultures of the United States’ and that there are intertwined ‘geographies of Florida’ that help explain why the George Zimmerman case and Trayvon Martin’s death are such lightning rods of debate about social justice, race, class and gender these days.   

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