It IS a different country in a lot of ways. We have different laws, different beliefs, different values, different culture.

The US is NOT one nation united. It never has been. The founders of New England had different values and goals than those of the mid Atlantic, or the south, or the west. It was only the collective trauma of the tumultuous nature of the early 20th century followed by the prosperity of the rest of the century that lead to an illusion of unity.

This is not going to get better.