It’s not really a divide when 79.219% of the population lives in urban areas. Just sayin’.
This is one of the reasons why it seems to me so many FReepers don't understand how outnumbered they are, or how fringe some of their views have become.
http://conservativebyte.com/2012/08/obamas-plan-to-eliminate-suburbs/
Obama’s Plan to Eliminate Suburbs
“It’s all about people fleeing, wanting a better life, and leaving behind their poor neighbors about whom they cared nothing. How basically the suburbs are made up of a bunch of selfish, greedy people who don’t care about their fellow man. That’s how Obama was raised. And, indeed, it is what many leftists believe. And I have to tell you, folks, the constant push by Democrats to get us into mass transit is all about destroying the cities. Let’s take a look. In California, Moonbeam Brown, the governor, is intent — what are they, $16 billion in debt? $16 billion state deficit, right? Maybe even higher. And what are they focusing on? What is one of Governor Brown’s primary objectives? This bullet train, a speed train from nowhere to nowhere.
Why? Mass transit. And the key word in mass transit is “mass.” As far as liberals are concerned, leader liberals, central planners, we are the masses. I remember Reagan I think in that famous Goldwater speech in 1964 made a point of saying how much it offended him to be considered a member of the masses, that we don’t have masses in America, that we are made up of beautifully, wonderfully free individuals, pursuing happiness and liberty. That we’re not a nameless, faceless conglomerate. We’re not “the masses” under state control. And yet this is the dream of the American left. That’s what Kurtz is writing about. Mass transit. I mean all these light rail trains, every time I see one there’s hardly anyone on ‘em. Mass transit cannot support itself in most cities. There’s no interest in it. America still has its love affair with the automobile.”
The urban population may outnumber the rural population by 4-1, but if the SHTF I expect the casualty rates to be at least 20-1, and possibly much higher.
Reference for that?