On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:52 PM, 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.
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 to mention, the individual states in the US are so large and autonomous they act almost at the same level as other countries throughout the world.
-Dan
And certainly, logistically, there's a serious problem. A flight from New York to Los Angeles, for example, would cost anywhere from $300-500 round-trip. And driving would be out of the question for most; that's a 2,700 mile, 40-hour drive.