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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Geography, like others have already told you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

I think it's a rural vs. urban thing mostly.