On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 2:52 AM, Dan Rosenthal swatjester@gmail.com wrote:
The problem is based on size. Germany has an area of around 138,000 square miles, and has around 82 million people. California alone has 163,000 or so square miles of area, bigger than Germany, but only around 32 million people, meaning it has a much larger area for far fewer people.
For gathering people locally it sounds a good reason, particularily regarding to incentive to form up Birgitte brought up, but still there are many nationwide organizations in the United States of America?
And that's just one state out of 50. There are significant cultural differences between Louisiana and New Jersey, for instance. A US national chapter is not necessarily able to adequately represent that.
Not persuasive. Specially regarding to representation for selecting chapter-seats It may go only for US residents - for the rest of the world, sorry, it isn't too significant to distinguish from each other.