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Thanks for this; it's so interesting. So much of it speaks to the world my grandparents were born into - residents of a thriving region with a central metropolis (host to the 1904 World's Fair), for them the idea of the United States seemed to hold sway as a unifying philosophy as much as an administrative entity. Not sure this was actually the case - federal regulatory and financial authority certainly shaped their lives in ways most people weren't aware of.

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Apr 9, 2022·edited Apr 9, 2022

What we need is partisan moving vans to help move allies in and opponents out, and the latter will involve some tricky diplomacy, rather like giving bus tickets to the homeless.

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Apr 9, 2022·edited Apr 9, 2022

This is too theoretical, we need to be studying real examples like Antelope, Grafton, Colorado City, and the most extreme states, which are what? VT and MS? Or the most extreme counties. what are they?

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Apr 9, 2022·edited Apr 9, 2022

One problem is that progressive towns will need progressive cops, and maybe farmers and loggers (or more broadly, people who extract materials for shelter), and conservative towns will need conservative teachers. If we are to segregate by region, then we cannot be segregating by occupation or too much by urban vs rural. Progressive managers may be a problem as well.

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