> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> The thing that immediately jumps out at *me* is...
>>
>> Actually, no. The *first* thing is... Wee, fractals! ;-)
>>
>>> Anyway, why the east/west split? My random guess: Westerners arrived at
>>> the East cost, and moved towards the "wild west", colonising it as they
>>> went. Maybe that legacy still lives on.
>
> well, but the first McDonald's is from California...
>
>> On the other hand, I took a quick glance at Google maps, and it appears
>> that virtually the entire Western half of North America is some sort of
>> mountain range, so...
>
> The Appalachian mountains, right?  and the Grand Cannyon, I guess...
>

The Appalachians are in the North East.  Andy was talking about the 
Rocky Mountains.

While the Colorado river does start in the Rockies, the Grand Canyon is 
actually in the plains East of them.

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