polarization : If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon’s but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other. (Ulysses S. Grant: 18th president of the United States, who 1865, as commanding general, Grant led the Union Army to victory in the American Civil War, 1822-1885)