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But those places end up being very unwieldy in a lot of ways.
There are distinct differences in each of the regions that have now been mentioned in this thread.
The regional stages of development are very different since Europeans only subjugated the indigenous people, what, 400 years ago?
Most red states are choosing not to create new extremely dense urban areas, and Florida's been a red state (at the state level at least) for twenty-five years now.
California says "Been there, done that."
We're built out to the desert's edge, the Sierra's foothills. Except for some infill, there's nowhere to go but up in the temperate coastal strip.
Building sprawling housing tracts over the fields and valleys that supply so much of the nation's food, and exhausting our groundwater to do so, is finally becoming controversial.
Red states like Texas have the luxury of space until they do not.
Wait until everybody tries to match Musk's rate of reproduction!
