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Yeah, but I was quoting that "approximately half of us" number based on multiple polls, over time, and not just voting.
The nation is approximately 45% / 45% / 10%, in their belief systems.
In a very real sense we really are two nations occupying the same landmass.
I don't know if anyone will remember this, but way back in the ?late 80s?, back before the Internet, there was a TV mini series on ABC, where the Soviet Union invaded America, and won.
And there's a scene in that movie, at the end, where there's a couple of Soviet top military persons, and they're in front of a map of the US, and the US is split into multiple zones, with names like "Homeland", etc.
Then the one Soviet person askes the other Soviet person about how they will maintain control of the country.
The other Soviet person talks about how the US it's not just one people, but is just really groups of people, split in different area, divided, so they'll be easy to control and suppress.
I keep thinking back to that movie, and specifically to that scene, when I see what's going on today in the world.
About how we're divided, with everyone just looking out for themselves.
Edit: Here we go. What I described is discussed in the "Climax and resolution" and "The Divided States of America" sections of that article/page.
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