It should be doable at the state level, though. If a state isn't large enough to have consistent, large-scale projects, they probably shouldn't be an independen

It should be doable at the state level, though. If a state isn't large enough to have consistent, large-scale projects, they probably shouldn't be an independent state. Heck, it can be even smaller than that. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is regularly working on extremely large scale projects, and maintaining the ones they built.