Jack of Harts

Power in early Twenty-First Century America was evenly split between large rural areas and densely packed urban population centers. They were two completely different worlds that rarely met in real life. The liberal urbanites looked down on their conservative rural cousins as deplorables and irredeemable as one of their Presidential candidates once said. The rural voters thought they were wrong. That made it rather difficult for the two to coexist in the end. The American election of 2016 is touted by many as the beginning of the end of the first American Republic. It is more accurate to call it one of many flashpoints along that road.