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Joe Republic
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« on: July 05, 2012, 10:44:50 PM »
I was recently thinking of a few ironies in the American landscape.  For example:


-- Massachusetts began life as a deeply conservative colony of Puritan settlers.  Today it is a deeply liberal state of predominantly Catholics.

-- The notoriously anti-immigrant states of Texas and Arizona used to be part of Mexico.

-- Las Vegas, a.k.a. 'Sin City', began life as a Mormon colony.


Anybody have any more?
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Joe Republic
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« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2012, 01:29:22 AM »
Yeah, that's a good one.

Another one is that the only two states to stay loyally Republican in 1912 are now polar opposite ends of the partisan spectrum a hundred years later.
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« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2012, 11:21:13 PM »

Al, you know I love you, but do you ever really say anything at all any more?
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