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Originally posted by sgtclub
Thoughts anyone?
I'm not sure why, but for some reason this makes me happy.
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I think I should buy stock in Boeing.
It's not a big-picture surprise. I wasn't following the polling, but it has for years seemed incomprehensible to me that Europe, with all its separate histories, would be able to form a true union that goes beyond the merely economic. It's not like the US, which was able to form by the happenstance of growing out of the colonization by a single country, with a lot of common beliefs and fundamentally a shared history and culture.
Can you imagine trying to form the US today, though? Even if it weren't state by state, but say by region? I don't think it would happen. Instead it would be a loose confederation of economic territories sharing certain common interests. E.g., new england, mid atlantic, south, midwest, farm belt, rockies, california (actually, probably 2-3 separate states there), northwest. who knows exactly how it would work, but I don't think it could combine as it is.
