re: Half of the U.S. Population lives in these counties.

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Spend some time in a big city and your mindset will become slightly more liberal. Vice versa for rural America. Being surrounded by millions of people in close quarters tends to make one wish for more oversight and control.

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There are some studies that suggest dysfunction in overcrowded populations. I'm not saying they are 100% indicative of human nature. But they are interesting non-the-less.

One such theory is known as Behavioral Sink. LINK