Big Think - The modern U.S. economy is really made up of metropolitan regions, not states whose boundaries are arbitrary compared to local economies. Today, states have an anti-urban bias due to their excessive political influence. One radical idea is to redraw the map as a nation of 55 city-states that reflect America’s real economic relationships.
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I like this. Makes much more sense than colonial colonies based on Royal Charters and survey map straight lines in the west. And economies really do revolve around urban areas. It might even help us to figure out better how to reduce the burdens on rural communities by giving them more of the benefits of direct connections to the urban areas they are most connected to. And would probably reduce the interurban and interstate competitions to give away the tax base of our schools for jobs
A map of these 55 city-states might have been helpful to visualize.
Politically and economically, it seems cities are much different than their surrounding areas, and I fail to see how any new arrangement might change that.
Now, each State's government is swayed greatly by large cities. Any any "State" developed around populated areas would be equally influenced.
Or, does this article suggest the formation of large metropolitan areas as City States, and everyone else between them merely exist as a primitive agrarian society with little or no governement.
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