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There are US election maps showing which counties went for Kerry or Bush. They show nearly all cities for Kerry and everything between cities for Bush. Technology and politics have split the nation into urban and rural. My father grew up in a small town that has no reason to exist today, it was founded to serve family farmers coming to town by horse. My mother grew up in a small town that has no reason to exist today, it was founded to maintain a few miles of the Katy RR and provide water and coal for steam locomotives. Before the Interstate highway system the old US highways went through the center of small towns along the way. Travelers from the city and small town shopkeepers depended on one another and knew each other. Now family farmers are disappearing, railroads need fewer people and city dwellers can bypass small town on the Interstate, in the air, and over the Internet. As a child I felt at home in small towns and on farms and my parents talked the same way in the city or the country. Now I look at the Red counties on the map and realize I never go there except occasionally speeding through on the Interstate. I used to think what was unique about America was that it was a developed civilized country from coast to coast. This election makes me think the country is splitting into two economies and two cultures; city states in the global economy and the interior the global economy has passed by. This describes China, India, Brazil and many other countries like Russia with Moscow in the global economy and the rest of Russia out of it. Bush has created an image of someone who doesn’t need the global economy but the jobs and stores and family farms will continue to disappear from Bush country.
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