Well put! It's an interesting co-evolution (or lack of) with dramatically scaled corporations, as well. Pre-interstate, you didn't have as much consolidation

Well put! It's an interesting co-evolution (or lack of) with dramatically scaled corporations, as well. Pre-interstate, you didn't have as much consolidation of firms (e.g. local burger vs McDonald's, local inn vs Marriott). The national firms that did exist tended to be in higher-capital industries (e.g. transportation or resource extraction). So firms grew in scale and power from the 1950s+, but government structures did not. With the end result of pitting Lilliputian local governments against nation-spanning corporations.