We explore: What's happening in America? What does it mean to be an American?

What's happening in America? What does it mean to be an American? These are questions defining a campaign unlike any other. For nearly 35 days, we crossed the nation looking for answers. This is what we found.     In an election year like no other, one question has dominated the discussion: What's happening in America? Underlying that question is another, more profound and more personal one: What does it mean to be an American? For nearly 35 days, during the thick of the primary season when voters at last had their say, David Maraniss and Robert Samuels crossed the nation in search of answers. They went everywhere the election went - at rallies in airport hangars and high school gymnasiums, with canvassers rounding up votes, at Rotary Club breakfasts and fraternity house debate watch parties and morning coffee klatches and church sermons and sidewalk picket lines and Donald Trump's hotel and John Kasich's bus. The answers they found were as profound as the questions they asked - individual notions of what it means to be an American and a collective sense of why we've landed at this mysterious moment in the nation's history. Start reading "The great unsettling" to learn what we found » Longing for something lost PART 2 | In New Hampshire, the feeling is widespread. But what it truly means varies across demographics. By David Maraniss and Robert Samuels  •  Read more »   Awaiting a political awakening PART 3 | In Las Vegas and across the nation in South Carolina, people wonder whether the American Dream is still attainable. By David Maraniss and Robert Samuels  •  Read more »   A nation, divided PART 4 | In Michigan and Texas, voters choose between hope and fear. By David Maraniss and Robert Samuels  •  Read more »           Share Looking for America:       Twitter      Facebook Trouble reading? Click here to view in your browser. You received this email because you are registered on washingtonpost.com. For additional free newsletters or to manage your newsletters, click here. We respect your privacy. If you believe that this email has been sent to you in error or you no longer wish to receive email from The Washington Post, click here. Contact us for help. ©2016 The Washington Post, 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071