The I-95 corridor, economy-wise, is basically Germany (oh, and the United States is now essentially 12 mega-regions)

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKF-aOGXtCI&w=620&h=315]

Peter Hamby, from CNN, was one of my college roommates; we were talking a while back and he told me that sometimes, as he travels around America on political stories, he thinks it's just a mix of large cities and deep exurbs (it's a little bit different in parts of the South, potentially).…