A Nation (Or Me?) Divided

What direction am I headed towards?

I’ve lived on the East Coast of America, on the West Coast of America and in numerous points in-between. I’ve experienced the mass consciousness of most areas of the country and I am convinced that there is a north-south line separating the country.

No, that line is not the Mississippi River. You can cross that river either way at any point and you are still in the eastern half of the country.

I can’t speak about Alaska or Hawai’i as I have never lived or even visited either state but as far as the 48 contiguous states go it seems obvious that the eastern half of the country is hopelessly conservative, stuck in old paradigms and in a state of decay. Of course, there are a few areas, pockets, where the mass consciousness is more progressive, open minded and pushing the envelope of new ideas.

The western half of the 48 contiguous states are predominantly progressive and headed full-steam into the future although there are a few pockets of conservative mentality fighting the future and desperately holding onto the past.

To me personally, it seems that line dividing east and west is drawn from north to south just to the east of the Rocky Mountains. When you’re traveling from west to east and you come down from the mountains and you enter land…