Does America Still Have Any Optimism?

Sure, but it’s an optimistically racist slogan. At least as far as the OP is concerned, it would count.

I’m not so sure that’ll be the case; it’s not like generations are hard and fast things. And for the most part, the big divides in the US seem to be urban vs. rural and educated vs. uneducated. I’m not sure there’s a big change in either of those vs. generations past.

What I’m hoping for is that the prevalence of the Internet and the consequent homogenization of culture will mitigate some of the urban vs. rural divide relative to say… the divide in Gen-X, where we for the most part, did not grow up in the internet age.