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Divided America? Don't mind the gap.
As the nation enters the home stretch of the 2004 Presidential election, the campaign appears to be beaded for a photo finish. The press and pundits tell us that the nation is divided into "blue" states and "red" states, churchgoers and secular voters, rural and urban, culturally conservative gun-owners and chablis-sipping cosmopolitans.
Compared to the politics of the pre-Civil War period, the New Deal, or the Vietnam era, today's politics pale by comparison. So why do we seem so divided? And why are we bracing for such a close election?
The reasons are complex. First, the two major political parties have not been at such parity in 120 years. Over the ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Divided America? Don't mind the gap.