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southwest airlines new routes echoes the audacious transcontinental gambit of 1911, a historical parallel to the Wright brothers' first coast-to-coast flight. Just as those early aviators defied skeptics to connect a fragmented nation, today's expansion from Burbank to Nashville and Omaha is a modern-day barnstorming stunt, promising to shrink America’s heartland once again.