I have been thinking deeply about the Australian, UK, Brexit and US election results and the distribution of votes in those polls. It looks like there is a deep dichotomy between the people in the most populous cities and the people in the country areas. From what I can see, the

2. basis for their voting in each of the aforementioned instances was driven by entirely different hopes or fears. I'd say that the country areas would be more concerned with jobs, the economy, perceived autonomy and security whereas those in the larger cities are more concerned

3. with being citizens of the world and perceptions of equality, not just within their countries, but worldwide.
I'm not calling the former rednecks or bogans, my family and friends would fall squarely in that set. I'm not calling the people in the cities "globalists" because I

4. doubt that they have thought about it that deeply. The trouble is, though, that there is a clear divide between the country and the major cities (cities in rural areas being less so) and this doesn't look like something that can be resolved. Even California is not an outlier

to my observations: https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/california/ If you look, you can see the map has the lower populated rural areas in red and the higher populated city areas in blue.