On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 19:48:45 GMT, in a place far, far away, Dick
Morris made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

Someone's obviously never seen the US from the air.
There's lots of room out there.

Or even driven. California by itself is for the most part empty.

groan I have driven, and flown (and hiked) all over California and
the West for 40 years. A lot of places in the West would have trouble
growing a crop of tumbleweeds. Is there a point to all this?

Yes. We're not running out of room. At some level of technology,
those places currently barren can become gardens.