It's Wednesday, September 28, 2022.

I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events

from a Christian worldview.

We've been looking at the deep moral cleavages now very much apparent on the American political,

moral and cultural landscape.

And we've also seen the fact that this moral change is not evenly distributed across the country.

Even as these deep worldview divides divide Americans over ideas, over voting patterns, basic worldviews. They also increasingly divide Americans

into states. And so we have states that by individual perspective and by contrast really do tell us about the great moral divide, the great worldview divide in the United States.

I often say that if you want to see this divide just compare a state like, say, Massachusetts with a state like Mississippi.

But right now, perhaps the most interesting of these contrasts is seen by looking on both coasts.

Looking at the contrast between Florida with Governor Ron

Desantis and California with Governor Gavin Newsom. You can take an issue like

abortion, there it is front and center. It's not just like we have two

different states on two different coasts.

It's like we have two different moral worlds.

And of course that raises basic political questions about how long our

constitutional system can last.

If indeed, two American states become more like

two separate countries. It raises questions about our entire system of federalism but

right now it is really interesting to look at those two states.

It's also interesting to look to the 2024 presidential election.

And I've been asked my people like reporters what I expect,

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