Political Culture

I completely agree with Alyse. Her argument, for America having a conflictual political culture, has a very valid point. America has over three hundred and sixteen million people. It is impossible for everyone in the nation to agree and stand by the same morals. America holds a reputation for holding a diverse nation. It welcomes all different religions,speaks a variety of languages, and trusts in new opinions of the people. By the nation encouraging all this freedom to the people, it gives a larger area for conflicts in political culture to evolve. America has been divided into Red America and Blue America. Brooks characterizes Red America as people who live down south with less education and deeply involved in church. He describes Blue America as the complete opposite; living in cities, snobby well educated people with a large sense of individualism. This is the divide in America and facts have been found to prove it. A prime example is one stated by Brooks saying that only 53% of reds consider themselves an intellectual while 75% of blues do.Blue America likes to live by the idea of everyone having a creative mind of their own that they can show off and compete with one another, while Red America likes the idea of being equally minded and peacefully working eachother up together. Another example showing the distinct separation of reds and blues was found by Frank, which is a line from a "self described blue" American in New York City. After the 9/11 terrorist attack, she realized that the people doing the actual hard work and labor were the ones who kept the country running, not the business men. This shows the deep separation between the red and the blues. they live two different lives and have complete opposite views of each other. America has a visible separation of two very different people living in one country, under the same Constitution.
Although all this information may point out differences, I don't think having a conflictual political culture in a nation is necessarily a bad thing. Even though problems may arose from the spans of diversity across the country, it will push forward improvement and constant change in the government.