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2021 US map: Nation of Tech, based in SV, branch in Austin Acela Nation, based in NY-DC-Boston, branches in most univ towns Reaction Nation, based in Florida Hillbilly Elegy Nation, based in Midwest Drought Nation, Colorado river basin Globalist Church city-state, Seattle
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The only thing these nations share is a military and a fiscal/monetary system. Otherwise they’re now more divergent as Europe. Even language isn’t as shared as it seems, despite mutual intelligibility. Acela-speak, Trump-speak, and Tech-speak are meta-English dialects.
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Got here via attempts to identify cities in the US that are neutral and couldn’t think of any. Some conclusions surprised me. Like Seattle is not part of SV, just a big supplier. SV’s only true outpost is Austin (I haven’t been to Boulder since 2003 but I think it’s more Acela)
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