Postcard: Washington

摘要

Depending On Whom You Talk to, the Oct. II National Equality March drew between 100,000 and 200,000 people-estimates of crowds on the National Mall are notoriously unreliable, as anyone from Million Man Marchers to tea partvers can tell you. But one number you can take to the bank: the average age of the headset- and badge-clad event organizers was under 30. And that, by far, was the oddest thing about it. Why would a generation wired from birth to mobile phones and Facebook want to resurrect a form of political expression as fusty as a march on Washington?