The Eurozone kind of reminds me of pre Civil war US. Two fundamentally different economies, north and south, in need of integration. I think that unity in the US finally came with the advent of air conditioning in the south. Until then the unified country with a central bank allowed disparate states to hold each other up.
Maybe it wasn't a/c. Land grant colleges? College football national championship series?
Maybe it wasn't a/c. Land grant colleges? College football national championship series?