Yes, you're perfectly right !
After my first stay in the USA, I stopped thinking of it as one country, but rather as one half continent : great distances + so many geographical differences + different ways of life + different prononciations + people of different origins (not yet melted in that huge "melting pot" .....).

In France, a "Breton" (leaving in Britanny, west coast) is somewhat different from an "Alsacien" (living in the east, near the german border), or a "Marseillais" (living in Marseille, on the Mediterranean coast). Maxi distances : less than 1000km.

What can be said about WASP's (?) in N.Y. and Navajo people in Arizona, or Utah or New Mexico ?? How many miles between them ?? How many other differences ? And yet, you also are one nation.


Alain