The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(05-23-2021, 09:29 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Some countries neatly divide themselves between rural and urban areas in what are the sub-national divisions. To do so in America would require splitting states into their rural and urban areas. Yes, I can imagine people in rural areas to want to distance themselves from the giant cities through some sort of secession... but I can imagine cities in some "Red" states seceding, too. Example: Nashville is much more liberal and sophisticated than the rest of Tennessee.

Or, we could revert to federalism.  If urban areas resort to more cooperation and specialization to handle their larger problems, let these problems be addressed by urban areas.  The federal government could deal with things like a common defense which effect everybody.

But the federal government has been into one size fits all national solutions, often to big for the rural population, to small for the urban.  Federalism seems a more constructive perspective than splitting the states.