5. What are the two contrasting ideas that get debated with each renewed immigration debate? Why do they keep re-occurring? Support with evidence from the text.

answer: the time zones used to be whatever the local authority wanted them to be. one town might have 6am whenever the sun came up and another town had 6am 10 minutes later.  

the trains had a hard time when their orders said to be at a certain point at 6am.  

6am, but who's 6am.  

the railroads got together and set the time zones more or less along the longitude lines across the country.

explanation:

warfare was the primary means of cultural transmission in both regions.