Politcal Culture

I agree with Megan by saying that America is fairly politically conflictual. Brooks' idea of the people living in the the middle to southern U.S. thinking that people who live on the East and West coast being liberals and doing nothing all day, but drinking Starbucks and having other people doing the hard work for them is a perfect example of how Americans are conflictual. There is no consensus by any standpoint of how people on the coasts then the people in the central part of America (conservatives). People on the coasts (liberals) believe that conservatives are only uneducated farmers who are predominantly white. Frank also believes that people in the south base their political views off of their traditional values or beliefs and are less likely to have their ideas swayed like the liberals. Conservatives also believe in their religious values which would make them not necessarily go with ideas such as gay marriage and abortion, unlike liberals who have a tendency to agree with allow gay marriage and abortions rights. It is a rarity that both of these two extremes ever meet in the middle, which would make them conflictual because there is little agreement as opposed to a broad consensus.