
As I watched last week as protesters took to the streets in big cities, what struck me was the vast and growing divide between America’s rural and urban populations and their politics and sensibilities. One look at county maps of this year’s election results and you see what looks like a handful of blueberries sprinkled on an endless spread of red sauce (between the blue coasts). And yet, it is likely that the final result will be that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, although Donald Trump won the electoral vote and therefore the election. Part of the reason for this is that, as a census report noted last year: “U.S. cities are home to 62.7 percent of the U.S. population but comprise just 3.5 percent of land area.”
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Quote “Charles, there is this little thing called social media, you should check it out sometime. It’s allowed the average person to communicate directly with one another and share THEIR ideas without the pompous, narrow viewed opinions of some Liberal elite.
For decades you and yours were able to get away with controlling the narrative by virtue of having the only relevant soapboxes in town. Fast forward to today and you see a completely different landscape for information sharing, one in which ideas are exchanged at the speed of light free of media controlled bias.
Trump won the election because when people compared the dialogue that they were having with one another to your Liberal prism, they realized that they were no longer being represented.
Trump for ALL his flaws recognized and exploited this to great effect.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/