[neuromantik8086]

I've often wondered if the U.S. would work better if there were some sort of multi-layered federalism wherein each cultural region (Northeast, Deep South, Cascadia, etc) got their own executive and legislative office above the state level, but not at the federal level. Doing this would probably eliminate a lot of the gridlock in DC since people could work on cultural and social issues at that level rather than across all 50 states (although it would also probably make things a lot worse for minorities in the South...).