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hahah, you know, one of my favorite professors in grad school had as his basic thesis: America began as a country of people who were under duress. No group came to this country completely willingly and no one came to this country completely happy. The pilgrims came to escape persecution, the slaves came as labor, irish came bc of a famine, etc. People in england were given a choice: prison or America...
This country is based upon group after group of distressed people, and as such, are definitely more radical than most other "traditional" countries. Look at Canada..the mounties went west before the people. In America..the people went west, followed by the law. America has always been a more radical place. What's even more interesting is that the American South has always been the separate country/culture within the culture. Just that the south was once the liberal bastion of the country..
So, i could easily see how we are...divisive on issues but left of most traditional countries and right of most countries. We aren't exactly the most cohesive of countries...
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Chris
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