Lets see...north, south, east, west, and everyone else in the mid-US?
Lets see...north, south, east, west, and everyone else in the mid-US?
I was aiming more at demography than geography :P
The US was supposed to be a a state-by-state system with a very limited Federal Government. Thats the whole reason being different states. So that each state could run the way it wanted to. It wasnt until the late 1890's progressives decided to press the red button on the size of government.
what a marvellous unbiased opinion that was.
what a marvellously contributing post that was :P
your just a socialist communist on a left wing prayer ,maliciously sowing the seeds of individualism in an attempt to totality the country in a big government to guaranteed the pork barrel lipstick on Putin as he fly's under bus's from terrorist associatives who have taken away URR GUNZ.
no wonder are countrys fucked, we let you in.
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If an opinion wasn't biased, it wouldn't be an opinion.Originally Posted by Bodzilla
Actually it was probably a lot earlier. The most famous of these was Lincoln. On one hand slavery could have been construed as a state's rights issue, but being completely unconstitutional he couldn't let that slide. However, before Lincoln the states had the right to succeed, and we pretty much know how that went. There's a whole host of laws concerning state sovereignty that were rescinded during the civil war. (inb4 hurrdurr racists - don't bother).
Depends on your definition of "progressives".
The company pays to it's state, the buyers pay taxes based on what state they live in.
It's not actually as bad as people think, it's just played up as if it is. It's a media thing, they make a shitload off of dramatizing every news bite. Plus there's the whole psychology of people becoming increasingly isolated in their daily lives. They don't talk to their neighbors they text. They don't visit friends and family they just get on facebook. Nobody talks to strangers unless they have to and when they do, it's very impersonal. All information is condensed and reduced to a point where no one knows what anybody really thinks.
The North/South thing is a joke. it's barely existent. whenever you see it in media it's always southern bible-thumpers from hicksville being cast against highly secularized new england urbanites (it's no coincidence that these are the people in charge of media). Go out into the northern country side and you'll find that most people are just like the ones down south. In fact, i see more rebel flags in PA than I ever saw in NW FL. I lived down there for 20 years and for the last nearly 10 years i've lived in PA. People are way more racist in PA.
tl;dr: media 101
Last edited by sleepy1212; August 23rd, 2010 at 10:47 AM.
i'm not saying it's crazy as in literally insane (although parts of it could definitely take that title), but it's just such an odd concept for most of us foreigners to grasp
Factually, it was 99% accurate.
Even if the US is "crazy" and has a president I dont agree with, Id still live here over any other country in the world.
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