Political Culture

The political culture of America is definitely conflitual. As stated in both articles America is divided between red and blue states. Red states are defined as more conservative, they are made of the good old-fashioned American. A family man who attends church regularly and can make most of the repairs on his house or car. More importantly though this person is humble, desiring to remain out of conflict as much as possible and is willing to live and die for his country. Blue states are defined as more liberal, with modern Americans more wildly known as "Other America". These people normally live along the coasts and are viewed as more "unobservant, liberation-minded [and] relativistic"(Frank 22). This country is fighting a cultural war and its the hicks verses the hipsters. Everything from our humility to our spending patterns and yes of course our voting patterns are very different! For a moment now let's just think of the sheer numbers. With so many different people that are potentially made up of different backgrounds there is no way that we all agree. In Brooks' article he talks about diversity and how in red America the population is made up of 95% white people but the population in the blue states is only 60% white people while the other 40% is made up of people from African, Hispanic or Asian dissent. This diversity has obvious impacts on us as individuals. For one it makes blue states view themselves as more individual because they aren't part of that big unit community that makes up the red states. "I am special" verses "I am normal". These two different nations are night and day and there is not a shadow of a doubt about it in my mind.

View my video on the culture wars in America:
Culture Wars