Recycling Vexes Rural Areas

[Benton D Struckcheon]

5. NY's ethic is totally different.

Remember, the TVA was FDR giving the South a version of the New York Power Authority, which provided hydropower to NY at a time when it was still a new idea. NY also built the first interstate level highway, the New York State Thruway. Years later, Moynihan got the US gov't to "rebate" a part of the bill for that highway to NY, as NY had in effect paid the cost for building I-87, which it later became.
Generally speaking, advanced governmental functions start either in the northeast or on the West coast, and then move from there to the rest of the country.