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Re: OT: baloney and cheese

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Monday, August 4, 2003, 18:43
Quoting Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>:

> "Mark J. Reed" wrote: > > Only 39 counties in the country? Must be nice. The U.S. state of > > Georgia alone has 159 of the things . . . > > Of course, the State of Georgia has a somewhat larger land area than > England.
That's not entirely the point, though. Different regions have different histories, different political institutions, and different physical geographies which influence how political districts are created. England's counties arose under the influence of feudal monarchy and later corporate oligarchy from the Civil Wars on; Georgia's arose under yeoman popular democracy and planter-oligarchy. England also had a better level of transportation infrastructure than Georgia, and thus it was less practical in Georgia to insist that government officials move long distances to a local government center. ========================================================================= Thomas Wier "I find it useful to meet my subjects personally, Dept. of Linguistics because our secret police don't get it right University of Chicago half the time." -- octogenarian Sheikh Zayed of 1010 E. 59th Street Abu Dhabi, to a French reporter. Chicago, IL 60637

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