America is self-segregating, and it does not bode well

https://apnews.com/article/polarization-republicans-democrats-abortion-gender-colorado-idaho-406b5a841d4d47c8a08cf054c38bb2a0?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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One party controls the entire legislature in all but two states. In 28 states, the party in control has a supermajority in at least one legislative chamber — which means the majority party has so many lawmakers that they can override a governor’s veto. Not that that would be necessary in most cases, as only 10 states have governors of different parties than the one that controls the legislature.

We keep hearing how, for instance, 61% of the country supports reproductive rights but when politicians are supported by massive outside special interest money, they really don't need to care what their constituents want.  Increasingly, voters (who feel strongly) are following the politician's wishes, rather than vice versa.

If we don't talk to people whose views we don't share, our tolerance and forgiveness are never developed.

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Federalism — allowing each state to chart its own course within boundaries set by Congress and the Constitution — is at the core of the U.S. system. It lets the states, in the words of former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, be “laboratories of democracy.”

Now, some wonder whether that’s driving Americans apart.

The electoral maps they show us every four years show the country divided not so much by states, but more granularly, by counties.  Rural versus urban.

But more and more, as state governments make increasingly partisan laws affecting a whole state, those regional differences are becoming harder and harder for liberal enclaves within a conservative state, or conservative enclaves within a liberal state.  Our differences are being amplified, and extended state-wide.

So what ultimately happens to these Disunited States of America?