CV and mad panic behaviour

[DJC]

You do realise I'm married to one and have dozens of friends in the States that I communicate with every day ... on both sides of the growing divide

Yes, I did know that.  As I mentioned above, I have family in Texas and several mates who I communicate with most days.  A sizeable number of my former colleagues are ex-pat Americans too, as is one of my neighbours. 

A bit before my time, but one of my cousins was married to Atkins Jefferson McLemore, a cowboy, goldminer and newspaperman who represented Texas as delegate-at-large in the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth United States congresses, 1915–19.

It is a diverse nation but the "growing divide" is no larger than it has been in the past, and considerably smaller than it was in the first half of the last century.