The United States is not united at all. We live in two countries, divided by politics, wealth, health and education.

Almost two centuries ago, British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli wrote: “Two nations… who are as ignorant of each other’s habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.”

He was describing 1840s Great Britain, but it sure sounds like the disunited states of our union today.

Citizens of the red states that voted for Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2024 are far poorer than blue states that did not. Mississippi, for example, has a per capita income about half of that of Massachusetts. Nine of the top 10 states in per capita income are blue. Nine of the bottom 10 are red.

The ramifications of

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