According to Robert Reich, the country is divided like this: "On one side, mega-urban clusters centered on technologies of the future. On the other, great expanses of space inhabited by people left behind." I feel he misses two points. First, there is far more inequality in the so-called most progressive coastal states than there is in the heartland. Second, the technologies of the future are increasingly making location irrelevant. Sooner than he can imagine, the masses of underemployed in California and New York will cast an envious eye at the gilded lives of the hi-tech plutocracy in their states... and come for theirs!
Link: http://prospect.org/article/amazon-and-america%E2%80%99s-real-divide