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Decatur Deb1/21/2011 5:50:40 am PST

re: #62 freetoken

That kind of idea came up during the Carter years, especially when he floated the idea of moving part of the federal government out of DC area.

The idea, IIRC, was that states would be grouped into regions, a kind of super-state area for purposes of some governance.

If NAFTA is on the ropes, and the yahoos are still screaming about NAU conspiracies, I suspect any idea to fudge over state borders is a no-go.

Those federal regions actually made it into use. Not all agencies use them much (DoD), but most do. Often a federal agency like Labor doesn’t seem to realize it is operating in the same regional mode as another, like HHS. Atlanta functions as a shadow federal “capitol” for our region (IV).