I don't think its red state vs blue state. I think its urban areas/cities vs suburbs/rural areas. And you can't really split this up by state. And this is more

I don't think its red state vs blue state. I think its urban areas/cities vs suburbs/rural areas. And you can't really split this up by state. And this is more fundamental than income and skin color/identity politics since these are geniunely different lifestyles that can't be served by 1 political party. There seems to be some realignment happening. (modern day version of the book - the town mouse and the country mouse). And by "serve" i mean each member with D/R next to their name will bend to the party as the avg. Look at Angus King from Maine. ik there was a mass shooting etc but in pro gun maine, independent senator king (but caucus with D) just proposed an "assault weapon ban" that CA/WA/NY/MA etc has. This is one example but it happens for other things to. What does the future look like? Somewhere between perputual rule by a few cities with Singapore/Dubai/Hong Kong level power to a "national divorce"/balkanization/threats of succession or ignoring the federal government. I'm not too optimistic so im leaning towards the latter. The soviet union fell just 2 decades ago. This isn't too out of left field.