Jack of Harts

Large States like Old California and Old Texas ran into a number of interesting problems during the Second Great Depression. They were host to some of the largest cities in America on the one hand, and some of the largest stretches of sparsely populated ranch and farmlands on the other. There were few places in America where the divide between cityfolk and countryfolk was more pronounced than those two old States. The truly interesting bit is just how amazingly different their breakups were. They helped create a fundamental transformation of the very idea of Statehood in America, but simply acknowledged the new effective power structure that had developed during the decades leading up to that time. History repeats itself, and it did so in both California and Texas. You can see the results of that into Jack’s time. Yes, they have more Federal Senators, but that was a happy coincidence. According to them. Other changes were far more radical.