Hello. Your question is incomplete, but after searching, I managed to find the full version of it and I found that you forgot to say that it is about the article "A Quilt of a Country" written by Anna Quindlen.
In this article, Quindlen states that the USA consists of a great cultural chaos, since it is formed by a diversity of cultures and elements that do not complement each other, that are competently different from each other and are not able to establish harmony between them. This is all the right recipe to create a country that didn't work, but even so, the US is able to work and function as a unit. To support this argument, she compares the country with a patchwork quilt, which is formed by a crazy combination of pieces of fabric that are completely different and inharmonious, but capable of creating a functional, popular and even appreciable quilt.