>>11555424>want to kill off everyone that isn't on the coasts.The difference is mostly confined to the internet, or the inside of their heads for 5 minutes after they stop watching this-or-that infotainment program. I've lived (recently) on the West coast, East coast and in Texas. Day to day, barely 1% of people think deeply about people living elsewhere. When they do think of them, it's not really about violence or killing anyone. At most it's some silly news story ala "Oh did you hear, {state name} is allowing/restricting {eminently silly thing}. How silly is that?"
Nobody wants to kill you because they actually don't think anything about you at all.
>>11555810>Urban snobbery isnt newYep. And it's not even proper to frame it as "Coasts vs X", just spend some time in Dallas. As for people feeling like "the other" is out to get them, and is more violent than ever, they seem to forget (or were never taught) that in some years in the 1960's and 1970's there was more than one bombing PER DAY somewhere in the country. More than one bombing per day.
We don't have a polarization problem, per se, we have a communication technology problem. People feel angry because they spend time in digital spaces designed to show them the anger of others, and either join in support (with their side's righteous anger) or react defensively to the other side and feed the cycle.
