> I had the realization that there are practically two different Americas after I took a road trip through the south after having lived in the Northeast for ~20

> I had the realization that there are practically two different Americas after I took a road trip through the south after having lived in the Northeast for ~20 years. I've lived in ~8 states and can tell you that "two" is a significant undercount of the number of Americas. (And I suspect the same is true for most countries — it certainly is for India). I'd also be careful about drawing that line in too purely a geographic way. Geographic differences exist, but parts of Alabama and parts of upstate New York have more in common than their geographic locations might suggest (to pick two places I've been lucky enough to have lived in)