Playboypenguin
Moderator
Both sides love the media to portait the country divided into two sections.In reality, the United States is varying shades of purple all over
That way the "elightened" (the more liberal states such as California, Oregon, New York) can look down upon the inbred yokles in the midwestern states and the "pure" (the square states and their ilk) can look down upon the elitist heathens in the coastal states.
If everyone is busy hating what the other stands for they will not bother to listen to one another. Because if they did this, reasonable compromise might take shape and that is bad for both politics and big business.