> Wouldn't your thesis predict more political problems in areas of greatest diversity No, it would predict political division along racial lines, which is prec

> Wouldn't your thesis predict more political problems in areas of greatest diversity No, it would predict political division along racial lines, which is precisely what happens. > The cleft in the US runs mainly between rural and urban populations This is a weaker predictor than the racial demographics of the voters. > high-diversity and low diversity areas Are you using "diversity" as a synonym for "nonwhiteness"? Because if so, you're correct, but you could probably phrase this more explicitly. > I hadn't noticed Toronto had become a hellscape of inter-ethnic conflict Political rifts, which is what we are talking about, don't (usually, yet) manifest as visible ethnic conflict in the US either.