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Re:Four Million Commutes Reveal New U.S. 'Megaregions' by halomru on Sunday December 04, 2016 @12:51PM (#13100859)
That doesn't have to stop them. Europe's borders are also constantly redrawn, even in the 21th century. Next to the usual independence movements and annexations there's also a number of land swaps that happen due to referendums or in order to produce more sanely shaped borders.

I guess the key is that the initiative has to come from the individual states. If it was dictated from the federal level it indeed wouldn't work

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Re:Four Million Commutes Reveal New U.S. 'Megaregions' by AnimalMuppet on Monday December 05, 2016 @12:39PM (#13107328)
> Europe's borders are also constantly redrawn, even in the 21th century.

I know of exactly one non-war redrawing of a border in Europe in the 21st century. That's hardly "constantly".

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