[Buckeye McFrog]

I’ve lived in Washington DC. The uniformity of thought and group-think is off-the-charts.

Thank you for that comment. I have family in the D.C. area so I am there fairly often. I can't convey to people who have never been there how that town lives in it's own little bubble which is absolutely unlike anything the rest of us experience in Pittsburgh or Texas or Des Moines. It is palpable to me on the drive home when I get to around Hagerstown and realize that I'm back in the real world.

[PGR88]

I can't convey to people who have never been there how that town lives in it's own little bubble which is absolutely unlike anything the rest of us experience in Pittsburgh or Texas or Des Moines.

I am very conscious of this. I can feel my unconscious evolutionary primate instinct to conform to pack/tribe social-group norms rising when I am there.

[KC_Conspirator]

You described that well. Although I joke the real world when driving out of the Beltway starts when you see the first Trump signs, probably around Frederick.