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You make way too many assumptions about the midwest. I grew up on a beef cattle farm, and I went to my junior prom with an Iranian girl. There are hundreds of thousands of new immigrants into the US every year, and believe it or not, many of them choose states like Nebraska, or Ohio to live in.

You do know that that makes you part of the axis of evil do you?? :D

No just kidding Kandrathe I was exaggerating a bit for the sake of the discussion. I have been several times in the US and know a bit what's going on there.

As far as political opinion goes, I think we have the same spectrum of thought. Its just that the extremes are not as popular here. The two party system tends to marginalize those extremes, but a vote for the third party is not a wasted vote. The state were I live elected a third party libertarian Governor, and the two major parties were flabbergasted that it could happen. The majority of people in this state are descendants of immigrants from Germany and Scandinavia, and our opinions, values and attitudes reflect that experience.

I would venture that there are more members of the Nazi Party, or Communist Party here than in the Netherlands, and certainly more than you or I would like to believe. They are just not that visible to the mainstream, as they tend to get persecuted by the majority.

Well the question is what you call an extreme. The last reports from (I forgot the name, probably Unesco??)
showed that something in the order of 40 milion americans lived under the poverty line. So something must be wrong with that "persecution of the majority". I know that if those 40 milion would vote for a socialist party they would have directly an enormous amount of seats in parliament, so they could make changes. For some reason this does not happen.

One way of explaining this phenomenon is to say it is not so bad, and those numbers are not true (i'm very sorry I'm so bad with my sources). Maybe you have some link somehwere :D . Anyway, with all the getto's etc. I don't doubt these numbers.
Another explanation is that there is something going on for which reason thopse people don't vote. And it is very easy to say, as "well-off" person, that if they don't vote it is their own mistake, but people that have to fight every day to have food on the table often have different priorities.