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Worst of both options.
I thought it was Idaho too. On the map it looks like it would be Idaho, but I guess it’s that little cut out in Montana.
I may need to get out more:
It’s the Walter Mondale of maps (or is it the reverse Reagan?):
Help!! what’s the best way to get a picture of my map? Thanks.
I’m on Windows so I used the Snipping Tool to capture a screenshot, then I uploaded it to Ricochet with the Add Media button in the left corner of the comment box. Don’t know if that’s the best way but it worked for me.
I just dragged and dropped from the other
windowtab.I think back then the commies were still red so that would be a Mondale map. When are we going to switch back?
I could not agree with you more. Blue should be the color of conservatism, not red! (Whatever happened to “better dead than red?”)
PS – I have a similar issue with the use of “liberal” because there is nothing “liberal” about Progressives. Conservatives are the OG liberals!
Preach it!
OTOH, you could live in Climax.
I don’t mind passing through it often, but I’m not so sure about living there.
Drove through Kansas the first time around age 10 and haven’t felt a strong pull to get back to the Great Plains. Have a friend who lived in Missoula, MT for several years so I know I’m missing out.
Travel for work has allowed me to travel most of the country. Of course if this Corona virus doesn’t end soon, I may not be traveling for quite a while.
I know you mean population but if you said “small state” up here you’d get laughed out of the room. I’m pretty sure Al lives in Fairbanks, I’m in Wasilla. In Alaska we call that a good haul 300+ miles away, as opposed to a ways 200+ miles away, pretty close 100 miles or so, and nearby, under 50 miles.
Not sure if copying/pasting the code will work, so it may just be a block of code! I did not mark the states where I had merely driven through on my way to somewhere else, otherwise, the whole rest of the country would be blue. There aren’t many states I haven’t at least driven through.
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There’s a reason for it though. Blue has traditionally been associated with the US, while red has been the color of most of our enemies. So of course, Republicans are red.
I go through it now and then. It has a small role in the history of the 1832 Black Hawk War scare. (It was a scare here, and a war further west.) It has a good reputation for amateur baseball, and had good facilities when my youngest was in T-ball. It’s on one of the small prairies in southwest Michigan that attracted the first Euro-American settlers. Those prairies were attractive for Indigenous agriculture, too.
“This caps the climax!” is a phrase that one finds here and there in casual writing from those days, and that is supposedly how it got its name. One of young guys on a scouting expedition for land climbed a tree to take a look at the land, and that was his report to those on the ground. The house he built in Climax is the oldest house still standing in Kalamazoo County. Last time I went by (in July) it looked like it was getting reshingled or something along those lines.
Not too far further south is the small town of Colon, named by an early settler who had been studying an anatomy book and thought the layout of the lakes and waterways looked like an illustration in his book.
One of the grad students at my workplace had clipped a news article on the results of a school sports competition with the headline, “Colon explodes over Climax.” That was decades ago and for all I know that yellowed news clipping is still taped to the wall.
Settlers from Colon and environs built a settler fort during the early days of the war scare, right up against the edge of the Nottawasepe Reservation. Or rather, they started to. The stories about it got better over time, especially when told by persons who weren’t first-hand participants. A couple years ago around election time I finally got to meet the owner of the land where the fort had stood. He was out putting up some Republican yard signs. He had heard the stories but was vague on the details. But I know an elderly man who went to high school in Colon with some descendants of the same surname as the fort builders.
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I’ve worked in 46 of the 50 states and only lived in 3.
Not well travelled.
Thanks @arahant
Thanks @bishopwash
Why is this out of focus? Never seen that before.
I lost a ring in one of those 50 states and I’m wondering if any of you have seen it?
Is it precious to you?
There’s a real good episode of The Big Bang Theory involving that.
Clip 1:
Clip 2:
And so on…
Only if someone else takes it.
The most precious thing right now is lockdowns.