In 1901, the American League of Professional Baseball Clubs [formal name] joined the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs as a second major baseball league.
The two remained autonomous, separate legal entities until 2000.
Although the names are still used, those leagues no longer actually exist.
They reformed as one entity, Major League Baseball.
The exact opposite applies to America.
The United States of America was founded as a single nation.
Today, it's two totally separate cultures pretending to be the same nation, sharing the same borders and the same national government with NO effectiveness at all.
Liberals and Conservatives both destroyed America because we quite literally hate each other and cannot function in unison.
Conservatives have a harder time seeing this because they just don't get around as much
and don't realize that the other side is just as big as they are, just more densely populated in less area with a much higher cost of living and a much higher level of education.
There are not fifty united states.
Not even close.
The unity, when push comes to shove, is not desired by either side.