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  • like in many neighborhoods across the US here in Plymouth, Michigan, just outside of Detroit, the name on the lawn signs can change from house to house.

  • And during this election season, the political divisions within the neighborhood have never been more apparent.

  • Retired truck driver John Lohan and his wife, Nancy, say they're voting for four more years of Trump.

  • His accomplishments.

  • Forget about him.

  • A lot of people don't like him like a lot of people hate him.

  • But you look at his accomplishments and the thing he's done.

  • I mean, they're great and he wants to take our country in a godly direction, not in a Communist direction.

  • The prospect of a second trump term is a scary one for Plymouth resident and Biden supporter Alex Morgan.

  • But Morgan, whose neighbor two houses down is voting for Trump, says he sees the benefit in having some political diversity in the neighborhood.

  • Great to have a neighbor's with different political views because, well, hey, I don't know everything.

  • They don't know everything.

  • And if we can perhaps be polite, have like disagreements, that's okay.

  • But not all of the political discourse has been this cordial in the neighborhood Joe Kat said he didn't feel totally comfortable displaying his trump signs.

  • But everybody seems to get along.

  • This is the first, like I say, this first election, where it's gotten a little ugly, you know, when people stealing lawn sign, it's pretty stupid.

  • You know, I just think the lefts just so angry.

  • You know, uh, I've actually been a little bit afraid of putting the sign out in front of my yard.

  • You know, that something was gonna happen.

  • And if I was to go out of town or something, my wife would make me take it down.

  • Uh, just, uh, just stupid things there been happening, you know, The same has happened for Biden.

  • Supporters to Morgan said he decided to fly a Biden flag after two of his Biden signs were stolen from his front yard.

  • But in the end, these residents don't want politics to divide their community.

  • Biden supporter James Cullen says It's not the Michigan way.

  • Even if people have different political opinions, the vast majority of people you know do love their neighbors.

  • I think that they need to find a better expression of how they love their neighbors.

like in many neighborhoods across the US here in Plymouth, Michigan, just outside of Detroit, the name on the lawn signs can change from house to house.

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