A few months ago I was having lunch with a friend, and we were talking about the country. America seemed divided then. But not like now.
My friend said that if the red and the blues, the proudly unwoke and the woke, the Trump lovers and the Trump haters, were divided along strictly geographic lines, as with the war of the North and South, we would have another civil war today.
At the time I thought he was exaggerating – being melodramatic.
I don’t think that today.
Of course the Civil War was essentially fought along geographic lines. But not totally. There were states caught in between and huge swaths of people, in both geographic and sociological segments, that sympathized with the people on the other side of the conflict.