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...

BTW, relevant:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger#Hamburg_steak

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