Interactive map: on the road to the United States of America

For a month, RFI crisscrossed the key states to meet these two Americas which no longer speak and no longer understand each other.

The rift has at times turned into a chasm between pro-Trump and pro-Biden.

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Text by: Frédéric Charpentier Follow |

Carlotta Morteo Follow

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From the coal mines of Pennsylvania to the beaches of Florida, RFI offers you a journey through the United States, to meet a population more divided than ever.

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, the presidential election on November 3 holds the country and the world in suspense, but deeply divides Americans.

For a month, RFI crisscrossed the key states to meet these two Americas which no longer speak and no longer understand each other.

The rift has sometimes turned into a chasm between pro-Trump and pro-Biden.

Pennsylvania, the declining industrial heart of the east of the country, is one of the states that overturned the 2016 ballot. Employees of the Pennsylvania coal mines threatened with closure had yielded to the sirens of candidate Trump who promised the relaunch of this sector.

Four years later, what is their state of mind at a time when shale gas is the new Eldorado?

► To read also: In the Midwest, two Americas that have become irreconcilable?

If the believing and conservative America of Kentucky and Missouri feels forgotten, it is nevertheless there that the initiatives of the American left emerge.

An appointment has been made with Tara Raghuveer.

This Harvard graduate could have joined Wall Street and made a promising career.

She chose to return to her hometown of Kansas City to defend residents threatened with eviction from their homes.

In this road-trip, it is also about the racial history of the United States, which resurfaced during this campaign, with the mobilizations against police violence.

The Covid-19 pandemic has particularly grieved

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Will the black electorate be there?

Finally, on the evening of November 3, all eyes will undoubtedly be on Florida, a conservative state.

Who will retirees vote for, supporters of Donald Trump in 2016 but who were the first victims of the pandemic?

What will be the choices of the Latino community?

This electorate of Florida nicknamed " 

 ", will he wake up to make a difference?

Reports:

Carlotta Morteo

Frédéric Charpentier

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