It's within metro areas, not between the states
America’s states seem increasingly disunited. Divisions over controversies related to COVID— lockdowns, vaccine mandates, school closures—have accentuated existing splits among blue Democratic and red Republican states with respect to partisanship and attitudes toward crime and public policy.
Some fear that these trends foretell a new civil war. Others welcome them as evidence of the saving genius of the founding design of a republic based on federalism. But before you choose sides in a new conflict between the states, you need to know that the basic assumption is wrong: There is no actual divide by states, which are merely battlegrounds in a proxy war. The real civil war is between neighborhoods in the same metro areas, backed by asymmetrical allies.
Ignore
maps that show electoral results by state and look at county maps or
maps of U.S. House districts. At this level of granularity, state
borders disappear. There are no red states or blue states. Instead,
there are blue urban cores floating in a sea of red. Even the exurbs and
rural areas in blue states like California and New York tend to be
overwhelmingly red and Republican...........To Read More....
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