• SecretSauces@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Hmm… Then maybe I’m full of shit.

    I wonder why there’s such a drastic change between those states then. And it seems like there’s a clear line where it falls apart, so I chalked it up to party influence.

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      2 months ago

      It’s like the Midwest where the land is flat and everything was planned out on a map ahead of time, is laid out in a grid.

      However anywhere with mountains, meandering rivers, earlier settlement before map planning, is laid out by settlement patterns strongly influenced by natural features