As an illinois resident I understand the notion that rural areas want to exit the control of population centers.
I will offer to you that the real reason the vote appears so much different there surrounds the very differing culture. Places here are diverse wheras there, tribes live in a form of apartied. If people here lived in groupings as they do there I would offer that our vote would look more similar to theirs.
Example: take the west coast and the midwest population centers and have them vote in one group, then take Rural cali and rural midwest and have them vote in one group. I would offer you see much the same results as we see in Iraq.
The constitution they voted on provided for a minority of three provinces to oust it. Sunni's failed among their own electorate. I think this is most telling thing about the election and I think it shows the world that ALL the sunni's are not on the same page, even if most of them are.
>>>I will offer to you that the real reason the vote appears so much different there surrounds the very differing culture. Places here are diverse wheras there, tribes live in a form of apartied. If people here lived in groupings as they do there I would offer that our vote would look more similar to theirs.
I think that point actually supports my argument. Places in this country are diverse and yet given the opportunity would like to split. What does that mean for an area where the they live in a form of apartheid?