• Wogi@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      I’ve been to both. Montana is happy to larp as a cowboy state and North Dakota knows what it did.

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        11 months ago

        It’s not that those places don’t deserve modernization, it’s just that those are much more sparsely populated areas, with much longer distances between population centers. From a cost and logistics perspective, it doesn’t make sense to build routes in those places before establishing routes elsewhere, in denser areas. You have to walk before you can run, etc.