Politically, every state looks the same.

[OAITW r.2.0]

Red Counties = rural. Blue counties = population.

We are not a cultural divide.....we are an economic divide.

[JI7]

1. That is a cultural divide .

[regnaD kciN]

4. A cultural divide that is also an economic divide...

Most people in rural counties believe they are the "real Americans" who keep this country going but, in fact, it's the blue regions that are the primary economic engines of the U.S., and the red counties, where people claim to be "rugged individualists," are soaking up most of the services us in the blue areas are paying for.

[OAITW r.2.0]

7. Are you the smartest poster I ever read at Free Republic, Nick?

Because....you are such a danger!

[greyl]

2. And the cultural and economic divides combine into an information divide.

Millionaires can live wherever they want, city or rural, but low wage earners are forced to reside in only the less expensive places, or be homeless.

[OAITW r.2.0]

8. You are correct.

In my rural area, we are doubling down on Stupid.

[SweetieD]

3. It is a racial divide mostly. Those rural places are almost always 95 percent white

And white American with no recent foreign ancestry. It is basically them against everyone else.

[OAITW r.2.0]

9. It's not racial, its group think.

When you don't have outside contact, that is how you think.

[SweetieD]

12. No it is racial. I grew up as an outlier demographic in place like that. I know the

Way they think. It is race. Dressing it up as "cultural" differences or "economic differences " is complete bs. These people are taught that they may not be first class, they may be white trash, but at least they aren't black. That is the belief that carries them on. And it is them against non whites and any whites who don't support that view.

[dchill]

5. The divide is education. As intended.

[In It to Win It]

6. Couldn't agree more

The thing about the GOP voting working and poor folks, they don’t get that we’re on their side.

[betsuni]

10. Education level, not income. Less educated, more racist.

Trump voters had higher incomes than Clinton voters in 2016.

[OAITW r.2.0]

11. Not in Dexter, Me.

Jobs lost: 4500 Jobs gained : 500 ?

[betsuni]

13. So they reward the party of the 1%.

Deindustrialization started in the sixties. Automation is the biggest reason for lay-offs. Union membership peaked in the fifties. Union members have a sense of class solidarity. This is racism, because of education and right-wing (and now propaganda pretending to be left-wing) brainwashing. Plutocratic populism.

[OAITW r.2.0]

15. Not in Dexter, ME.

No racism (no Blacks here)

[Ell09]

14. Blue-population and Red-rural is true

I would say the most clear divide is education.