Is American political culture conflictual or consensual?

      The main question is whether today America has a conflictual or consensual political culture. The answer to the posed question is that America has very conflictual views. Based on the article written by Brooks, there are red states and there are blue states. People that live in red America are conservative in their political beliefs and live more towards the middle of the country. They are much more humble, and family oriented than in blue America. Blue America is along the coastlines. Here people have very liberal beliefs and are much less humble than people living in red America. These two different political sides of the country make America have a conflictual political stance

      The video, "The Bad Map We See Every Presidential Election" is a great example to show the conflictual nature of the United State's political views. During presidential elections, maps like the one below are used to show which states voted for each candidate. The majority of the mid-west and middle of the country voted for the republican candidate that had a conservative outlook and the majority of the coastline states voted for the Democrat, or liberal candidate. This goes along with Brook's idea of Red and Blue America. He said that people who lived on the coast were mainly liberals and people in middle America were mainly conservatives. Based on Brook's views and the video example, it is clear that America does not have one unified political culture, but is divided into two separate peoples with different ideals and political opinions.

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