I wonder why there’s such a drastic change between those states then. And it seems like there’s a clear line where it falls apart, so I chalked it up to party influence.
It’s like the Midwest where the land is flat and everything was planned out on a map ahead of time, is laid out in a grid.
However anywhere with mountains, meandering rivers, earlier settlement before map planning, is laid out by settlement patterns strongly influenced by natural features
Hmm… Then maybe I’m full of shit.
I wonder why there’s such a drastic change between those states then. And it seems like there’s a clear line where it falls apart, so I chalked it up to party influence.
It’s like the Midwest where the land is flat and everything was planned out on a map ahead of time, is laid out in a grid.
However anywhere with mountains, meandering rivers, earlier settlement before map planning, is laid out by settlement patterns strongly influenced by natural features
Geography, like others have already told you.
I think it’s a rural vs. urban thing mostly.