I hope we do not get any more divied than we already are but I do not know how to fix the problem and I think that is why we have the problem. I do not want to think about were we will be in 20 years either I really worries me. I see it in our citys so I can't image where we are going to be in 20 years it is alot to think about.

We are not so divided. Bush has a very low approval rating. Thats unity. Poles are devised to prove a point, not find the truth, anyway.

It just seems like there are so many things that divide us, between Democrat this and Republican that, I know everyone has different views, but still.

The phrase "together again" assumes that we have ever been "together". You do not specify what nation is "our" nation; therefore, I'm going to answer this question assuming that we are discussing the United States of America (because that is my country). At the time of the Revolutionary war, Whigs and Tories existed. A Whig supported independence from England. A Tory supported remaining a colony of England. These groups supported different sides in that war. Yes, some American colonists supported the British during the Revolutionary War. Following the Revolutionary War, contentious debate ensued on the nature of the new nation. Would we be one single nation, or a commonwealth of independent nations (similar to the EU)? How strong should the federal government (if any) be? At this time, no one asked – nor cared – what women, Native Americans, blacks, other minorities, or even white non-landowners thought. These groups didn’t have a say. The newly formed United States of America subsequently also denied them the right to vote. In 1812, the United States of America was again at war with Britain. At this time, some still supported the British, as they never wanted to separate from Britain in the first place. Following this, we had the Civil War, in which the nation almost split in half over economic means. Slavery was a byproduct of the economic era of the agrarian south. The north was fully industrialized by that time. Consequently, bitter debates erupted over taxes, tariffs, and trade. The south supported trade with England and low tariffs so that they could export their cotton to England. The industrialized north supported higher tariffs to protect the finished goods produced by the industrial factories. During this time, Lincoln freed the slaves in the rebellious states with the Emancipation Proclamation. This was designed as an economic blow to the Confederacy, whose economy was so dependent on the free labor of the slaves. This was part of a greater economic strategy, which included burning plantations (Sherman), blockading Southern seaports, etc. Slaves in union states (such as Maryland) would wait until the 13th amendment to be freed. The newly freed slaves could not vote, and would not be able to until the 15th Amendment. Following the blacks obtaining suffrage, a series of “Jim Crow” laws were passed that still effectively denied them the right to vote until the mid-1900’s. Women didn’t obtain the right to vote until the 19th Amendment in 1920. After this was the Great Depression, labor union disputes, WWII (during which Japanese Americans were put in concentration camps within the US), McCarthyism, etc. After that, we had the 60s and the Civil Rights movement. The 70s brought a surge in the Women’s Right’s (Feminist) Movement. The 70’s also brought the rise of political Evangelical Christianity as a counter-reformation movement. Given this broad overview, please tell me when it was that we were all living together in agreement.

a big fall