Could it be that half of us are living off the other half?
We could carry the division just a little further. Like dividing the country into “red zones” and “blue zones”.
Divide the country up by congressional districts, and those that voted “red” in the last election would be in one zone, regardless of state boundaries, and the ones that vote a consistent “blue” put in a number of sometimes widely scattered zones, sometimes multiple zones within the boundaries of one state, and some zones joined between adjacent states. The “red” zone, which would be nearly contiguous, would still maintain the statutory delineations between the states as they existed before, but in many instances, it may be necessary to relocate the state capital, as many of the current locations of state capitals are also in hopelessly “blue” zones, And of course, it would be necessary to relocate the center of the Federal government, simply abandoning the existing structures, perhaps to Oklahoma or some other reliably “red” part of the redrawn map.
The Constitutional form of government would be reaffirmed in the “red” zone, and a very strict border policy set up between the larger “red” zone and the various “blue” zones.
The “blue” zones could then set whatever sort of cockamamie set of rules they want to be governed by, but they would not be allowed to practice those rules outside the “blue” zone. If, for whatever reason, they find themselves in a “red” zone, they have a choice of two - return to a blue zone forthwith, or be subject to arrest, trial, probable conviction and sentencing for “harboring plans for government overthrow”.
We have an example from history and even current events. East Germany and West Germany existed side by side for several decades, and we have the dichotomy of North Korea and South Korea before us even today.
Forty years of the Democrat Party openly pursuing a Divide-And-Conquer strategy?
That's the symptom, not the cause.
The cause is that we lowered import tariffs, so that those of us with jobs could enjoy cheap imports. And we put half our people out of work in the process.
But the real cause is that we kicked God to the curb and lost whatever wisdom we had.