[OllieJones]

Tobias wrapped up this fine post writing, the "gap [between developed and underdeveloped counties] will be, if it continues, a major fissure in a future America."

WILL be? It already is. It's pretty much in line with the so-called red / blue divide in the nation.

[cageface]

I've been living abroad for well over a year now. I always have to explain when I get the inevitable questions from people baffled by the inanity of our politics that the U.S. is really like two different countries stuffed inside one border.

[dredmorbius]

s/two/fifty/

There's a reason it's referred to as the united states.

In most of the world, "state" == nation. The US is an exception, but it's because the initial concept, pre-pivot, was of a confederated union of independent states.