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NRaleighLiberal

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5. each generation is so different - and it is hard to directly compare

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Fri Oct 13, 2017, 02:57 PM

Oct 2017

I would probably answer in some ways, yes, in other ways, no.

I think unless one goes through each of the division points themselves and at a similar age (hence ability to comprehend first hand), it is impossible to answer any more clearly.

As an early 60 something, this is the worst I've experienced - but an older friend who was directly impacted by Vietnam thinks that it was worse back then.

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Has America ever been as divided as it is now ? [View all] DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2017 OP

At least not that I can remember! imanamerican63 Oct 2017 #1

Civil War Not Ruth Oct 2017 #2

We were divided by geographical lines. DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2017 #3

War of 1812 against Brits Not Ruth Oct 2017 #4

each generation is so different - and it is hard to directly compare NRaleighLiberal Oct 2017 #5

brothers killed each other. we lost a full 2% of our entire population over the course of 4 years. unblock Oct 2017 #6

A Civil War is unfathomable because the divisions are ideological, not geographical. DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2017 #13

it is fathomable, at least in the sense that a convenient geographical border isn't a requirement unblock Oct 2017 #17

I think it's always divided Corvo Bianco Oct 2017 #7

The late 1960s were pretty crazy. The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2017 #8

the cleavages got to be pretty four dimensional Sen. Walter Sobchak Oct 2017 #12

I think people were a lot more divided at the peak of the anti-war movement than today Sen. Walter Sobchak Oct 2017 #9

I was in junior high school and had teachers who favored Vietnamization who I didn't loathe. DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2017 #10

Is 60-30 "divided"? brooklynite Oct 2017 #11

That is actually a good point but the division is closer to 60-40 DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2017 #14

The advent of cable TV & the internet transformed sparks into a raging fire. VOX Oct 2017 #15

The latest data informs that the sharpest political divides are between large urban concentrations. DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2017 #16