{"id":12385,"date":"2020-05-23T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12385"},"modified":"2020-05-22T13:18:57","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T20:18:57","slug":"across-the-wide-growing-american-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/across-the-wide-growing-american-divide\/","title":{"rendered":"Across the Wide, Growing American Divide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Red-&nbsp;and blue-state America was already divided before the coronavirus epidemic hit. Globalization had enriched the East Coast and West Coast corridors but hollowed out much in between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The traditional values of small towns and rural counties were increasingly at odds with postmodern lifestyles in the cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were, of course, traditionalists in blue states. And lots of progressives live in red states. But people increasingly self-segregate to where they feel at home and where politics, jobs, and culture reflect their tastes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ensuing left\/right, liberal\/conservative, Democrat\/Republican divide not only intensified in the 21st century, it also took on a dangerous geographical separatism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coasts vs. the interior reflects two Americas \u2014 often in a manner similar to the old Mason\u2013Dixon line that geographically split the U.S. for roughly a century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Liberals scoff at the deplorables and irredeemables for embracing an ossified, unchanging 18th-century Constitution. The red-staters supposedly cling to their weird, dangerous habits such as owning guns and opposing abortion, while adhering to paleolithic ideas of small government, secure borders, and don\u2019t-tread-on-me individualism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/05\/coronavirus-crisis-growing-american-divide-red-states-blue-states\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Red-&nbsp;and blue-state America was already divided before the coronavirus epidemic hit. Globalization had enriched the East Coast and West Coast corridors but hollowed out much in between. The traditional values of small towns and rural counties were increasingly at odds with postmodern lifestyles in the cities. There were, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3dL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11307,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-origins-of-our-second-civil-war\/","url_meta":{"origin":12385,"position":0},"title":"The Origins of Our Second Civil War","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 31, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review How, when, and why has the United States now arrived at the brink of a veritable civil war? 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