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> On the east coast they solve this problem by having smaller states. That makes it sound like the eastern seaboard was originally the size of California, and
by pavel_lishin 1y ago
> On the east coast they solve this problem by having smaller states.
That makes it sound like the eastern seaboard was originally the size of California, and then we recently decided to break them up when it was too big to effectively govern.
(I mean, I guess you could say that is what happened during the colonization of the area, and the Revolutionary War... I'll leave that debate to someone who studied more history than I did.)
Although I will say that New Jersey and NYC do constantly do things that affect the other one; it's just a function of NYC being a huge city, on the border of a dense state.
- singleshot_ 1y agoDid you know Maine used to be part of Massachusetts?
- pavel_lishin 1y agoI did not!
- potato3732842 1y agoI should have said "doesn't have this problem much at all" rather than "solves" but regardless... >Although I will say that New Jersey and NYC do constantly do things that affect the other one; it's just a function of NYC being a huge city, on the border of a dense state. And their misery is their own doing so nobody feels bad for them in the way that people feel at least a little bad for CA famers who are getting crapped on by people the white collar workers elected or feels bad for LA being hamstrung by policy that appeals to SF and Sac or whatever.