• @[email protected]
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    341 year ago

    It takes about 8 to 12 hours to drive across Texas, which is longer than it takes to cross Germany. France and Germany have different laws, and so do Texas and New Mexico. Once you realise that the USA is essentially 50 different countries stapled together, it makes a lot more sense.

        • z500
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          61 year ago

          And in my state we even break counties down another level

        • Oliver
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          31 year ago

          When you compare the size. When you compare the population… it depends.

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            1 year ago

            Texas has a bigger population than Australia. In fact, it would be 51st largest population and 40th largest area in the world if it split off from the USA.

        • @Jolan
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          31 year ago

          Your second biggest state*

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      I’d imagine that France and Germany probably have more similar laws than some US states do because of the EU.

      • Turun
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        31 year ago

        Maybe? The EU is way younger than the US though.

        • @KarmaTrainCaboose
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          31 year ago

          Also the EU is way less powerful over the individual EU countries than the US federal government is over the states.

      • @KarmaTrainCaboose
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        11 year ago

        Not so sure about this…maybe you could find two states that have very differing laws compared to France-Germany, but on the whole it’s probably not true. Kind of hard to quantify that though.