The whole coasts vs. flyover country thing is outdated.
The real divide is urban vs. rural. Every state of a significant population size has major cultural differences between urban areas and rural ones. While the media is disproportionately focused in its urban echo chambers of NYC, LA, and San Fran, you can find similarities between smaller urban areas and major cities, just like you can find similarities between rural areas in different states.
My state of NC is a good example. Chapel Hill, Durham, and Raleigh are pretty liberal politically. If you drive for a half hour outside of their city limits, however, you'll find it's pretty conservative in those areas. You'll find that divide in most states.
On average, you'll also notice that the crime rates are substantially higher in urban areas than rural ones. Even though I'm a conservative, I'll admit that this can't just be chalked up to liberalism, however. I think the real issue is that, past a certain population density, a small but significant percentage of humans like to steal or victimize people. These same people are less active in their crimes in rural areas, usually because there's less to steal and fewer people to attack.
In short, urban areas can become a magnet for both good people and bad people. By virtue of having fewer people in general, it's easier to keep crime levels more manageable in rural areas.
Common Sense (05-22-2019),nathanbforrest45 (05-22-2019),Standing Wolf (05-22-2019)
Liberals are moral degenerates. They would have done this and then stole the crepes and eaten them.
Liberals are a clear and present danger to our nation
Pick your enemies carefully.
Liberals never admit to anything. Nothing to a liberal is as it seems, no liberal has ever said what they were recorded saying not 10 minutes ago. Look at AOC and her 12 years prediction and Nancy Pelosi claiming she never said there was no crisis at the border.
Nope, nope, wasn't me must have been that other person who never said anything.
Chris (05-22-2019)
If our cultural differences across America are merely politically ideological then the liberal (from classical to modern) project has succeeded. What was once a strong, holistic, hierarchical social order has had the life sucked out of it. And we are, in a Rousseauian sense, free, free at last.
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers....
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler