The split is rural vs urban. Look at the recent elections on a county by county basis.
Urbanites control the media.
Urbanites live in an artificial environment devoid of God’s creation. You can’t see the stars in urban areas because of man made light pollution. If you can’t see the vastness of the cosmos, how can you understand the truth about mankind?
The split is rural vs urban. Look at the recent elections on a county by county basis.
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It’s definitely biased along those lines. I liken it to the way they do new phone area codes... rather than carve out a separate geographical area for the new code like was done years ago, for quite a few years now the codes are just intermingled. To some extent, this is a bit of metaphor for how we live...we’ve all become that much more insular as we can communicate and live our lives without having any contact with the folks right next door... a concept that of course was generally unimaginable before modern telecommunications.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_historical_population
A simple solution is to extend states rights to cities to restore the optimum political border size. Give cities unlimited freedom to tax and regulate, within city limits. Anyone that has a hankering for more big government in their life can move there. Anyone that works for a living can move out. Political conflict solved, civil war averted, and socialism destroyed by self-inflicted hanging.