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.
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.