Why? (was Re: [Ansteorra] Principality?)

[Iago]

In the past I've chose to stay silent on this issue.

Some nagging questions have always bugged me.  How EXACTLY is forming  
one or more principalities going to help alleviate anything.

Localizing and separating regions and creating even MORE regional  
differences is good?

Adding new events to the calendar to support the principality is good?

Forming a principality will somehow make it cheaper to drive to  
Coronation/Queen's/Crown/Fall Melees/Three Kings/Warlord/GulfWars?

People who won't drive farther than 100 miles for an event, still  
won't, no matter the political identity.  Much the same with those  
who won't cross the Red River (in either direction), or those who  
won't go west of I-35.  I would prefer not to encourage this sort of  
behavior by sectioning chunks of the kingdom off.

With the price of gas, we must now be choosier about which events we  
go to.  I'd love to go to Loch's event and then turn around and go to  
Warlord the next weekend, but I'm going to have to pick one. I'll  
deal with it. I'll be grouchy about missing one, but I'll live with it.

If there are other, underlying reasons to form a principality that  
I'm missing, please let me know.

Iago