... is nearly 100% due to the cultural divide that exists between the coastal elites and Middle America.

For centuries, each region of the country had its own very distinct culture. It is why Cajun food was king in New Orleans, yet probably non-existent in Salt Lake City in 1940. It's why college football was (and still is) king in the Deep South, yet completely foreign to families who have lived in Manhattan for generations. It's why Country music dominated the airwaves in the South and also why there were few or no country music stations in New England back in the 1920s and 1930s.

But as technology has advanced, everyone living anywhere can subscribe to and consume any part of any subculture that exists, no matter where that subculture is rooted. Not only that, but transportation advancements and globalization have made it to so that most Americans now live in multiple states within their given lifespan... bringing bits of their old culture to their new home.

So now you can easily find a Cajun restaurant in Salt Lake City... Chicago Deep Dish pizza in Miami... or Nashville Hot Chicken in Los Angeles. It's why Country Music has now gone mainstream and can be listened to in any town or city in America. Its why college football has become more popular in places like Oregon and Idaho but also why hockey has increased its popularity in the South and West.

Most of this is nothing but good. But the problem is this: While most anyone is fine if a previously regional cuisine or previously regional type of music now invades the region they call home, when it comes to religion and politics, people aren't so fine if they are expected to adapt to a way of thinking that is rooted some place else.

Here is what it all boils down to: The Coastal Media and Political Elites make up just 15% of this country, but they decide about 99% of the media content we consume (whether it be news or simply television, cinema, magazines, etc.).

Nearly all major news media outlets are based in Washington or New York. This isn't just politics. MTV airs live from Times Square every day. ESPN is based in Bristol (greater NYC). And nearly every major magazine is published in New York, Los Angeles, or San Francisco. And of course Hollywood has a stranglehold on most all television and cinema.

As technology increases... media influence also increases. And the problem we have today is that our Coastal Elites are completely one-sided and completely out of touch with mainstream America.

The Coastal Elites can't imagine any decent person voting for Donald Trump, so therefore they just assume that all of Middle America is made up of non-decent people.

They are going to give us their liberal spin... whether it be through news, television, movies, etc... whether that form of thinking plays well in Middle America or not. Quite frankly, we don't have much of a choice. Hollywood in the 1990s made a choice to make homosexuality more mainstream, and Middle America pretty much had to tolerate it in television and movies if we wanted to continue watching television and movies.

And for the most part, this has been tolerated by Middle America without major push back.

But the problem is that our elections are still free and thankfully everyone has an equal vote. One person in Manhattan, Kansas has one vote just as one person in Manhattan, New York. So when Middle America speaks out and chooses a president that the Coastal Elites don't like, they completely lose their sanity.

When Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008 and again in 2004, the majority of Middle America disagreed with the choice the nation made for President. But what happened had happened and we all just lived with it. And thanks to the Coastal Elites, we were treated to 8 years of media telling us that everyone in America was in love with Obama and his liberal agenda... and if you weren't, you must just be a racist bigot.

But now when the tables turn, the coastal elites are the ones disappointed. And because they dominate the media, we're treated to news and television filtered through the assumption that all of America hates our current situation and choice for president.

So the political divide only deepens. Hollywood and the Cultural Elites despise Middle America, and they hate the fact that Middle America has so much say so in our elections. And Middle America continues to be increasingly annoyed with constantly being told how to think and vote.

Until we as a society are represented with more of a mainstream media, this division will only deepen.