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Podhorzer isn’t predicting another civil war, exactly. And those dividing lines were largely set at the nation’s founding, when slave states and free states forged an uneasy alliance to become ‘one nation.’” The differences among states in the Donald Trump era, he writes, are “very similar, both geographically and culturally, to the divides between the Union and the Confederacy. To Podhorzer, the growing divisions between red and blue states represent a reversion to the lines of separation through much of the nation’s history. This is not a metaphor it is a geographic and historical reality.” We are more like a federated republic of two nations: Blue Nation and Red Nation. “But in truth, we have never been one nation. “When we think about the United States, we make the essential error of imagining it as a single nation, a marbled mix of Red and Blue people,” Podhorzer writes. In a private newsletter that he writes for a small group of activists, Podhorzer recently laid out a detailed case for thinking of the two blocs as fundamentally different nations uneasily sharing the same geographic space. That’s the provocative conclusion of Michael Podhorzer, a longtime political strategist for labor unions and the chair of the Analyst Institute, a collaborative of progressive groups that studies elections. I t may be time to stop talking about “red” and “blue” America.
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