The divide is very real, but it is not neatly geographical, as it was 150 years ago. It’s an ideological divide and it permeates all aspects of our current society.
For me, the really big advantage of “drain the swamp” was always to get this stuff out into the open. Show people the corruption. Show them who the Clintons are. Shown them Obama and Biden. Show them that the FBI, CIA, and the media cannot be trusted.
Let the scales fall from their eyes so that the ideological divide is dissipated as more people see the Truth.
But the swamp is not drained and people do not see.
The American narrative is freedom to speak, all rights intact because of out Constitution. The progressive Marxist narrative waters down or leaves out entirely our Constitution and leaves Americans pinned down under a dictatorial, one sided rule. from birth to grave.
The divide is urban vs. rural and suburban.
If it were regional we might be able to divorce without violence.
But as it stands, the opposing force is just down the highway about 30 minutes to an hour.