[nabla9]

Reconciliation never fully came. People lived and died with their grudges and hate. I remember the bitterness of old people around the issue from the time when I was young.

Soon after the civil war Social Democratic party was the government and Finns had a president that was social democrat. It made it possible for reds and whites to live together without killing each other.

Then Winter War came (1939) and Finns united to defend the country against common enemy. That created aseveliakseli (comrade-in-arms axis) where both whites (captialists) and red (socialists) fought together against common enemy (Soviet Union)

[pasiaj]

Finns were segregated to different sports leagues, different youth groups, different stores etc. based on families political leanings for decades after the war.

If you go to any small town in Finland, you'll still find an "S Market" and a "K Market" that have their roots in this left-right segregation going back all the way to the civil war.

[hn_throwaway_99]

Kinda sad because that is definitely happening in the US. If you look at measures of political polarization over the past couple decades based on where people live, it has gotten much more extreme. You are much less likely to come into contact with people in your neighborhood who are of the opposite political side than a generation ago.

[vkou]

You're not radically less likely to come in contact with people of other political views, you are just more likely to be surrounded by people who keep their political views quiet, because they know what's good for them.

Most of the US is purple, the difference is whether it's a blue-ish purple or a red-dish purple.

[hn_throwaway_99]

You are much less likely to come in contact with people of other political views than in times past, and there is plenty of detailed research to back this up. One recent example:

https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/research/resear...