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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: which almost always renders a union feasible. I do not know of
any European nation, how small soever it may be, which does not
present less uniformity in its different provinces than the
American people, which occupies a territory as extensive as
one-half of Europe. The distance from the State of Maine to that
of Georgia is reckoned at about one thousand miles; but the
difference between the civilization of Maine and that of Georgia
is slighter than the difference between the habits of Normandy
and those of Brittany. Maine and Georgia, which are placed at
the opposite extremities of a great empire, are consequently in
the natural possession of more real inducements to form a
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