Across the Wide, Growing American Divide. By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

Across the Wide, Growing American Divide. By VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/05/coronavirus-crisis-growing-american-divide-red-states-blue-states/?utm_source=Hoover+Daily+Report&utm_campaign=8aa220d42d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_05_21_06_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_21b1edff3c-8aa220d42d-72863337

Excerpt: Perhaps in this time of plague, Americans can at least agree that the romance of Arcadia is suddenly preferable to the allure of big-city lights.

Red- and blue-state America was already divided before the coronavirus epidemic hit. Globalization had enriched the East Coast and West Coast corridors but hollowed out much in between. The traditional values of small towns and rural counties were increasingly at odds with postmodern lifestyles in the cities.