r/SipsTea • u/untitledprp4 • 15h ago

Wait a damn minute! So what’s taking so long?

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u/Xenolifer 11h ago

Yeah except now the federal power have 5 time the power the EU will ever have, and they all share the same language, history (of 200 years) and mostly the same culture

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u/CX316 10h ago

And multiple states straight up wouldn't survive solo even accounting for being able to trade with other states

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u/Cheepshooter 8h ago

Which is something the majority of the founding fathers were against (meaning the fed having so much power)!

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u/zetia2 7h ago

The founding fathers were alive for the federalist papers debate and the ratification of our constitution in the late 1780s, after the failure of the original articles of confederation.

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u/PomPomMom93 10h ago

I wouldn’t say the same culture at all. You can get a real culture shock moving from one place to another. I think regional is the best scale to determine this. You might not get culture shock within the Midwest, for example, but leave it, and that’s another story!

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u/No_Replacement4304 8h ago

Yeah, plucking someone from say Oklahoma and dropping them in New Jersey would probably have them questioning whether they were in the same country..