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My guess would be that the land is not as conducive to farming west of that line, both in terms of soil and weather. So early settlements didn't occur there, a
by duderific 7y ago
My guess would be that the land is not as conducive to farming west of that line, both in terms of soil and weather. So early settlements didn't occur there, and thus cities did not emerge from those areas.
The cities that did evolve in the West were based on different resources: ports around the ocean, mining, oil, railroad stops etc.
- Wald76 7y agoThat’s correct, the US population density correlates fairly closely with the average annual rainfall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_rainfall_climatology#/media/File:Average_precipitation_in_the_lower_48_states_of_the_USA.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_rainfall_climato...