Reuniting America

In May 2003 the founders of Reuniting America, Joseph McCormick and Pat Spino, followed a portion of the route of Alexis de Tocqueville, the 1831 author of Democracy in America. Along with a videographer friend, Terrel Broussard, they documented average people and national leaders from across the political spectrum about the state of four universally accepted American values: freedom, equality, unity, and government by the people.

They did extended interviews with diverse voices including: Dave Keene, Chairman, American Conservative Union and Nadine Strossen, President, American Civil Liberties Union, inquiring how the ACU and the ACLU were able to work together to protect freedom and civil liberties post 9-11. They asked Ross Perot, Ralph Nader, and Lyn Nofziger, Reagan White House Political Director about the current state of government of, by, and for people as compared to the time of de Tocqueville. They visited an old fashioned New England town hall meeting in Bellingham, Massachusetts where the people voted on issues, not the elected officials; and talked with African Americans on 125th street in Harlem and with Vietnam veteran bikers at a Memorial Day rally at the Pentagon about the state of equality in America.

They asked everyone what unity meant to them.