When studying the interaction of multi-state regions in the US, regional economists typically use the regional divisions developed by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). The BEA's grouping of the 50 states into eight regions is based primarily on
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Theodore M. Crone (1999) studied this question.
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