Sure, history made it so. From the automobile, to oil, to interstates, North America is it. https://www.army.mil/article/198095/dwight_d_eisenhower_and_the_bir

Sure, history made it so. From the automobile, to oil, to interstates, North America is it. https://www.army.mil/article/198095/dwight_d_eisenhower_and_the_birth_of_the_interstate_highway_system https://www.army.mil/article/198095/dwight_d_eisenhower_and_... >> President Eisenhower is widely regarded as the catalyst for the IHS. His motivations for a highway network stemmed from three events: his assignment as a military observer to the First Transcontinental Motor Convoy, his experience in World War II where he observed the efficiencies of the German autobahn, and the Soviet Union's 1953 detonation of the hydrogen bomb, which instigated a fear that insufficient roads would keep Americans from being able to escape a nuclear disaster.