I was thinking about this recently in regard to the saying of the 1940s and 1950s which was "Better Dead than Red" which meant at the time that it's better that everyone dies in a nuclear war than to live in a communist state which was the rational for the Western Democracies fighting Communism especially in Russia and China and elsewhere on earth.
That seems a bit extreme right now here on earth but then it was a prevailing view here in the U.S.
And today what might be even funnier is that "Better Dead than Red" might be liberal democrats attitudes towards people in Red States that support Trump. (If you are not from the U.S. a Red State is a primarily Republican leaning State and a Blue State is a primarily Democratic leaning state.
For example, California and New York STates would be primarily Blue Democratic States where as southern States (the states that were the south in the Civil war might be more likely to be Red States.)
So, once again "The south will rise again as the red states?"
So, these days there are two basic belief systems politically here in the U.S. IN the red states people are "Go to church" people more and in the blue states people are more either atheists, agnostics or "Spiritual but not religious" and less about actually going to church in a very conservative Christian kind of way.
Also, blue states tend to be more people with College degrees and Red States tend to be more people with High school educations or less.
This is just about the demographics of the U.S. more than anything else.
But, it is about belief systems.
And right now there is no objective reality shared by the Blue States with the Red States which makes these times as dangerous as during the last Civil War in the 1860s once again.
So, it might be only a matter of time before major violence breaks out once again here in the U.S. over 150 years after the Civil War ended.
note: it's 153 years since the Civil War ended right now.
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