The name “Two Coasts” is derived from a theory proposed by the author about two years ago as an explanation for America’s greatness. (If you disagree with this premise, I’ve got just the site for you.) For sake of simplicity, and certainly not to shirk from an appetizing debate, we shall assume that the United States has achieved greatness. It is, after all, the most economically, politically, militarily, and culturally powerful nation on Earth.
A significant factor in America’s greatness (other than bourbon) is the country’s two gigantic coast lines. Even ignoring the Gulf coast, the United States has two ridiculously long navigable coastlines, each on a different ocean, dotted with ports and harbors, rivers to the interior (if the Gulf is added to the mix then it only strengthens the argument - let us proceed without it), and transit connecting the two. No other country in the world enjoys such a geographic situation. Perhaps Australia, but Australia sits in near isolation way down there with a giant desert smack dab in the middle. Oops. Its coasts don’t present the same economic opportunities therefore that the two king American coasts do.
Via these coasts, America has large scale access to two of the world’s oceans (Russia has minimal access to the Atlantic, but only through the Baltic and round about from the Arctic). Two gigantic fisheries! (Plus Alaska on top of that.) East-to-west water access to the markets of Asia and Europe! An extra coast for culture, finance, technology, and out of touch elites! Huzzah!
Oh, this sounds like a bunch of half-baked cockamamie, you say? Well I was probably a dozen deep when I came up with the idea. How many other ideas incubated so are even half as good? What? Ah, vaffanculo!