One nation, always divided: Angry cultural schisms are nothing new in America

Chicago Sun-Times | October 1, 2006| | Copyright

What kind of American are you? Red-state or blue-state? Secular humanist pinko or Bible-thumping loon? Tribe of Coulter or tribe of Franken? If you're a citizen of the United States of America, the odds are good that your sense of identity over the last couple of decades (and especially, exaggeratedly, since the undigested trauma of the 2000 election) revolves around the question of where you belong in this perilously polarized nation.

Sometimes it seems as if the dichotomy in American cultural and political life has itself become the only subject of public discourse. It's contained in ...

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