Some random observations on the 2018 off-year elections, for Thanksgiving weekend pondering.

1. We hear constantly, and in some respects accurately, that Americans are deeply divided politically. Another way to look at it: The differences between North and South, visible for two or three centuries, are vanishing. As Real Clear Politics analyst Sean Trende tweeted, “Southern suburbs are starting to vote like Northern suburbs, Northern rural/small towns starting to vote like Southern rural/small towns.”