Americas Conflictual Culture

The United States of America is filled with uncommon people since there is so much diversity in today's world. Whether it is an argument about how the president should have made a different decision on a controversial topic or something as small as the best color, different people and groups will have different opinions about it. With this much division, the political culture of the United States is a conflictual one. 

According to the article, "One Nation, Slightly Divisible" by David Brooks, "People in Blue America... tend to live around big cities on the coasts. People in Red America tend to live on farms or in small towns or small cities far away from the coasts. Things are different there."

 The Red States are filled with citizens that have a very conservative mindset while the Blue States are filled with liberal-minded people. Since everyone is brought up in different parts of the country and with separate beliefs, their morals and ideologies will be different from someone who lives a totally different life than them. Since a Red stater is raised and taught a totally different way from a Blue stater, many conflicts between will rise between them. 

From 1952 to about 1972, the states in the US have had relatively the same opinions as one another since the map has been dominated by one color. If America was consensual today the map would still all be one color like in the past. As the years have gone on, more believes, ideas, and groups have surfaced, causing division and conflicts between people in the United States.

This t-chart shows the platforms they believed in the strongest
during the latest election.

For example, this chart shows that different political parties like the Democrats and the 

Republicans have different opinions on the most important issues today. Each party has a different idea on how to fix certain isues and the party you agree with may be different from someone else's perspective and will cause a divide between those two people. This great divisions betwen people in the United States prove that America has a conflictual culture