INVESTIGATION – Abortion, carrying a weapon, the environment, racism, wokism… The divorce between Republicans and Democrats is obvious and cuts the country in two.
Washington Correspondent
A deep political divide is deepening in the United States. On abortion, guns, new theories of gender, sexuality or race, immigration, mask-wearing or ecology, conservatives and progressives have all but stopped debating. Each question is just another point of contention between two Americas that are growing further and further apart.
One is formed by the states governed by the Republican Party, concentrated in the South, the Midwest and the Rockies. The other by those led by the Democrats, who form two blocks, on the Pacific coast and in the Northeast, on the Atlantic. To this division is added, within almost every state, that which separates the large metropolises from the countryside and small towns.
More than policy disagreements, America is now divided on ethical, cultural, philosophical issues
These two blocs observe increasingly different laws, or refuse to apply those of the federal state which do not suit them. Their divergent trajectories draw the map…