The headline says: "Eruption of anger, violence in Virginia divides the U.S.".

That is not an accurate and that is not an objective news headline, it is laden with subjectivity and historical misinformation.

Here is a better headline:

"Eruption of anger, violence in Virginia roils the U.S."

But to claim that the eruption of anger and violence in Virginia divides the US?

Not so much, really. It is not as if a substantial portion of Americans are saying "Yay, the violent smashing of people and property in a riot in a Virginia town, yay, I am all for that kind of mayhem".

The PERTINENT division, over anti-black racism and Civil War symbolism, that ALREADY divided off the chunk Americans, mainly in the south, BEFORE Virginia's recent weekend. Those older, existent divisions had already divided up America into two camps (those with sympathy for the white nationalists, those with no sympathy for them) long before this summer.

The headline misses the mark.