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But the other element driving these people to the Democrats is Social, not economic. Wealthy Northeastern people tend to be secular rather than religious, or otherwise belong to very Liberal churches and synagogues. They live in cloistered communities and almost never have to deal personally with the pernicious effects of crime and drugs. They tend to favor illegal immigration because that's how their lawn gets mowed and their hedges neatly clipped. They don't own guns (except as showpieces) and don't know people who do. They do not work with their hands, except at the keyboard. They and their children attend elite universities where their social liberalism is reinforced if not further radicalized. The get their news from the New York Times and CNN, and their opinions from the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Esquire and look down their noses at the likes of, well, Us.

Good post. You've got it. But what happens when somebody from Greenwich logs on here and finds out how little use some of us have for him or her? It's a two way street, isn't it?

If someone from Greenwich logs on here, they are welcome as anyone to explore the range of opinion that exists within. I would dare offer that they will find a far broader range of sentiment at FR than they would encounter at, say DU, and I might add, ones far more elegantly expressed.

The cultural divide in America centers not on the "use" those of us on the Right have for "Progressives" nor on the use they have for us. Rather, the plane of American culture splits along Faith on one axis and Reason on the other. Liberals currently lie on the Left lower quadrant, and Conservatives on the upper Right. The Left in this day and age is both anti-Faith and anti-Reason, which would have fascinated (and perhaps appalled) our philosophical ancestors. They are, or are becoming nihilists. The consequence is that we speak different languages and exist on different planes of perception, which is why it is increasingly difficult for us to engage in civilized conversations, and why the Islamicist threat to all of us is now so greatly intensified. E Pluribus Unum is, sadly, no more than a motto now.