You really don't. You have ONE. But a lot of variety within that one.

Yes but they segregate.

Also geographical differences

No @Zakhan each state is a country. Like your EU

No.

Traveling through 'murica has to be a bit surreal sometimes. Like, you leave LA, then it's hundreds of miles of a highway through desert and mountains, then there's one mid sized city in the middle of nowhere, then the desert and mountains repeat and then there's the Bay area, which is like one of the most densely urbanized places ever

That fucking blows my mind Xav.

Your "states" are nowhere near being independent countries. Too young as entities to be that.

The EU is... well... you can try to force the comparison with the US, but it doesn't work. The independent nation-states are far more advanced in age and thus have a more advanced sense of identity.

And don't stem from the same base, unlike US

At best you roughly get the hispanic, franco, germanic, slavic stripes

@Zakhan and yet, our states have identities

With scandinavia on top and ex-rome on bottom

What, you've never met a Texan?

Not to mention the difference in bureaucratic setups required to keep many different nations together as opposed to keeping a union of territories within one nation as they are formed.

Texas, Cali, New York, and Nebraska are the most important

My Ozark house is just a nice mansion on the lake I visit

Texan? Yankee? Does it matter? You have so many identities and none of you know which ones ought to matter first and which ones matter less and less and less in descending order.

>nebraska

>important

theres a sjw in the writing on the wall chat

come and have a look

@Jack of Trades Need I repeat myself?

@Zakhan half of the eu member states are younger than the us

With fabricated identities

HAHAHAHAHA

Okay, mutt.

Take Macedonia for instance

Fabricated identity

M,m,m,m,monster kill

Oh, yeah. The Balkans.

That's a mess. If you split them up into their storied pasts, you could have a good few rump kingdoms there.

Without Nebraska y'all wouldn't have a lot of the tech conveniences you enjoy today

If you unify them, you have the trouble of which iteration of unification or alliance or cooperation you want to go with.

Yugoslavia's only like 4 decades older than the state of Alaska anyways <:pepelaugh:544857300179877898>

Yugoslavia doesn't exist anymore.

@Zakhan Serbia does

Yes, and the successor states are younger than that iirc

There is quite the history there in those successor states, but the situation in the area is anything but settled.

That's a pressure cooker waiting to blow.

PayPal, Google, Yahoo, Verizon, and a few other tech Giants moved in here with data centers. First Data (which runs visa, MasterCard, etc) are also here

I look forward to seeing a Remove Kebab Boogaloo tbh