US Presidential Election - Monitoring Swing States

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KrspaceT said:

(F.Y.I the War of 1812 was pushed by Southerners and Western Settlers, the Rural People. It was opposed by New England and other more urban areas. Low and behold, the war goes badly and the war they started threatens New Engand and New York the most.) 

(Also F.Y.I the Civil War was started by Southerners, who were at the time predominately Rural and dominated by slave holding plantation owners.)

As I remember it the War of 1812 was largely endorsed if not caused by New Englanders outraged over Britain interfering with our maritime activities—from their blockade of the [edit: Napoleon-controlled European] continent hurting our business to their forcibly impressing Americans into their navy.  If you can inform me to the contrary then I'm looking forward to it; Wikipedia does not lead me to believe my impression was very wrong.  

I also think it's a mistake to claim the North/South schism was primarily a matter of urban areas vs. rural ones.  Although the North was considerably more populous than the South, the North was also mostly rural (along with the South).  However, I will admit that the South was much more culturally and economically dominated by agriculture and especially plantations than was the case in the North.  Nevertheless, I stand by my statement that the difference was more than, and different from, "urban vs. rural".