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The eastern U.S. was so cloudless last week due to a massive high pressure system that you could actually see fall colors from space. (lemmy.world)
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[–] SecretSauces@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months 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.

[–] tehmics@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Geography, like others have already told you.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

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