Then, the elites vacationed by driving. That was a period of rapid freeway construction. The new roads were as smooth as glass. The interstates are much bumpier now. The inescapable impression is that the United States is no longer willing to invest money in its automotive highway network.
Repairs are spotty.
The wrong people use them. A second inescapable impression is that there are large tracts of the United States in which Euro-Americans are foreigners. Euro-Americans cannot enter these venues in daytime without a visibly obvious reason. In these urban combat zones of America, Euro-Americans yield the sidewalks in a classic reversal of roles from the old South. Driving Interstate 10 from San Diego to El Paso leaves one not so much with a sense of danger as with a sense of alienation.