Political Culture

I agree with Kayla and Zach in their saying that our country is politically conflictual.  The proof for this statement starts with the stereotypes that our country and fellow Americans use for one another.  The coastal liberals regard the middle conservatives as hicks and uneducated farmers and the conservative farmers regard the liberals as something other than Americans.  The way that these two groups view each other is the definition of our division.  In each place there are two different countries as described in Brooks' work, they live different lives and grow up in different ways which is the reason generations now and generations to come will continue to always be drastically different in their ideas on politics.  In a more broad perspective of our political crisis people have to look at the divide and understand that not everyone will have the same opinions and agree on the same topics.  The red states, republicans, and the blue states, democrats, show the division.  The difference in these two states is the way in which they act and the people that live in them.  The maps of the elections are the best examples of the literal separation.  Electoral maps give a representation of which states fall under Republican or Democrat.  What makes many central states Republican is their strong sense of religion and the demographics of where they live (farmland).  Democrats are like the way they are for similar reasons.  The tensions of these two parties are high and they will be for as long as people share different political cultures and ideologies however it is a problem of intellect, not physical battles so we fear nothing from that road.  Although, later on if our country continues to keep on dividing more and more then we may see a problem.  But, all in all our country is politically conflictual because of people sharing different morals and beliefs which influence their political stance.