[Political Analysis]
Most people see Connecticut as Blue but is all about where you look. Take a snippet of a city and you will find “True Blue” but if take a sample in New Canaan it will be fiery red.
The suburbs and rural areas are Republican and the city are Democratic. If you look at my Senate district it split in half city and half suburbs, right know it is Democratic control but it switches back and forth. My House district is also split in have but this time they are both suburban towns and right now we have a Republican representative. However, for the last 12 years we had a Democratic representative.
In 2021 a bipartisan committee drew up the districts not the ruling party.
If you look at the map you will see some gerrymandering but… But there was give and take by both parties.
If you look at the national map you see Blues on the shores where there is a dense population and red in the middle (Hmm… kind of like a medium steak.) where the population is less dense.
I have been through parts of the mid-west and the west. And I tell you driving through Kansas on I-70 there is nothing! Absolutely nothing. Oh look there are some trees it must be another farm!
So why the divide? Anywhere you have a dense population they are liberals, everywhere you have a homogeneous population you have conservatives while where you have heterogeneous population you have liberals.
It is that homogeneous population is what does, those who are different are the “others.” Whether their skin is black or yellow, whether they worship another god, whether they come from another country, whether they are attracted to the same sex, or they are trans… they are the other.
While in the cities the close proximity to diverse groups can expose individuals to different perspectives, potentially have more liberal view on diversity. They are “Woke.”
So it is not only a divide between conservatives and liberals but also suburban/rural vs. urban.
The $64,000 question is how so we as a nation overcome this divide?
[/Political Analysis]
Most people see Connecticut as Blue but is all about where you look. Take a snippet of a city and you will find “True Blue” but if take a sample in New Canaan it will be fiery red.
The suburbs and rural areas are Republican and the city are Democratic. If you look at my Senate district it split in half city and half suburbs, right know it is Democratic control but it switches back and forth. My House district is also split in have but this time they are both suburban towns and right now we have a Republican representative. However, for the last 12 years we had a Democratic representative.
In 2021 a bipartisan committee drew up the districts not the ruling party.
If you look at the map you will see some gerrymandering but… But there was give and take by both parties.
If you look at the national map you see Blues on the shores where there is a dense population and red in the middle (Hmm… kind of like a medium steak.) where the population is less dense.
I have been through parts of the mid-west and the west. And I tell you driving through Kansas on I-70 there is nothing! Absolutely nothing. Oh look there are some trees it must be another farm!
So why the divide? Anywhere you have a dense population they are liberals, everywhere you have a homogeneous population you have conservatives while where you have heterogeneous population you have liberals.
It is that homogeneous population is what does, those who are different are the “others.” Whether their skin is black or yellow, whether they worship another god, whether they come from another country, whether they are attracted to the same sex, or they are trans… they are the other.
While in the cities the close proximity to diverse groups can expose individuals to different perspectives, potentially have more liberal view on diversity. They are “Woke.”
So it is not only a divide between conservatives and liberals but also suburban/rural vs. urban.
The $64,000 question is how so we as a nation overcome this divide?
[/Political Analysis]
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