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Just an idea:
Let's assume for a moment that "liberal" means "in favor of more (government) regulation" and "conservative" means "in favor of less regulation", for the sake of the argument. We see that in America, the more crowded a place is (especially big cities), the more liberals there are. And the less populated a region is, the more conservative people there are.
(Western) Europe is mostly considered "liberal" by American standards, or at least people seem to be more fond of regulation there. And Europe has a much higher population density than America.
Could it be that more crowded places simply require more regulation to run well? And people living there simply notice that?
Obvious example would be traffic: When you're on a street somewhere on the countryside, where one car passes per hour at best, it's obvious that there is less regulation required than, say, in the center of a metropolis like New York city to make the traffic run smoothly, where there are thousands of cars passing each hour, if not dozens of thousands, as well as pedestrians.
What do you think? Is that at the core of the truth, maybe a major reason for this divide, or is this idea simplifying reality way too much?
Sorry if that idea is silly, it's really late over here.
Let's assume for a moment that "liberal" means "in favor of more (government) regulation" and "conservative" means "in favor of less regulation", for the sake of the argument. We see that in America, the more crowded a place is (especially big cities), the more liberals there are. And the less populated a region is, the more conservative people there are.
(Western) Europe is mostly considered "liberal" by American standards, or at least people seem to be more fond of regulation there. And Europe has a much higher population density than America.
Could it be that more crowded places simply require more regulation to run well? And people living there simply notice that?
Obvious example would be traffic: When you're on a street somewhere on the countryside, where one car passes per hour at best, it's obvious that there is less regulation required than, say, in the center of a metropolis like New York city to make the traffic run smoothly, where there are thousands of cars passing each hour, if not dozens of thousands, as well as pedestrians.
What do you think? Is that at the core of the truth, maybe a major reason for this divide, or is this idea simplifying reality way too much?
Sorry if that idea is silly, it's really late over here.