EU wins Nobel peace Prize. No... seriously, they did!

[Mr Khan]

kowenicki said:

Mr Khan said:

kowenicki said:

What's this supposed to portray?

The names over the states portray a country with GDP roughly equal to that of the state, so, for instance, New Jersey's gross domestic product is about as much as the whole of Russia, or New Mexico on the level with Hungary.

It sinks the "GDPs are too disparate" argument right quick, when you've got France, Sweden, and Austria living in harmony with Uzbekistan, Ecuador, and Algeria.

Yeah I'd already worked it out.  It that has bugger all to do with what I was referring to and is frankly an embarrassing American lack of understanding of the world in which we live. 

See my edited reply above.

Usually the argument i hear is about financial disparity, not about social-cultural, mostly because the proposal for total political union has not yet gained traction.

Plus i must remind the jury of the American civil war. One language hasn't stopped Americans from having many cultural differences internally, and certainly analogues can be drawn towards the prime European cultural divide, between North and South of the Alps/Pyrenees, which could be easily made analogous to the Mason-Dixon line

Hell, used to be worse in America. Used to be West was distinct from North and South. Still is, sort of, but that phenomenon has grown isolated.