Lastly, there may be some hope that America and its allies are not as divided as they sometimes seem.

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And sometimes we're so divided between rural and urban, and folks whose hunting is part of their lives and folks whose only experience with guns is street crime.

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And I believe that our politics is not as divided as it seems sometimes.

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Almost every metropolitan area is divided into dozens, sometimes hundreds, of local administrative units (265 in Chicago, 780 in New York).

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The country is divided over the best way to educate them, with bilingual programs gathering steam but also provoking a sometimes heated debate with those who favor an English-only approach.

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