Darcelle Slappy says Democrats and Republicans who live in places like this part of Western Pennsylvania are a lot closer than how they're portrayed on TV.
“Unlike Washington, we are all just a few notches from each other in either direction,” Slappy says. “We have much more that draws us together than divides us.”
In fact, she says the divide in this country isn't Republican versus Democrat: “The real division is between the elites and us.”
If you watch TV news or read most mainstream media, you would believe our country is in meltdown. In a New York Times column last week titled “The American Civil War, Part II,” Thomas L. Friedman stated: “I began my journalism career covering a civil war in Lebanon. I never thought I'd end my career covering a civil war in America.”
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