I'm trying to find the interview where he talked about that it that I read a decade or so ago, but as I recall, he said that his idea (which wasn't actually sta

I'm trying to find the interview where he talked about that it that I read a decade or so ago, but as I recall, he said that his idea (which wasn't actually stated in the books) was after the brief WWIII, the US was demilitarized and broken up into smaller states, of which the "Sprawl" (the urbanized US East Coast from Boston down to Atlanta) was one of.