Every state is different. The ones who are really backwards are the Southern states for rejecting the Union.
Is California a cultural and political island?
L.A. Times
2012/12/17 15:33:37
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This 17th century map by Nicolas Sanson clearly shows California depicted as an island. It's one of 800 such maps collected by Glen McLaughlin and recently turned over to Stanford University.
The geographic oddity caught the attention of McLaughlin, an American businessman who was browsing through antique maps at a shop in London in 1971. He bought it -- and began pursuing a quirky and expensive passion that would lead him to devote an entire room in his San Jose-area home to what is believed to be the largest private collection of such maps. "It was not a very pretty map, but it had the concept that California was a very different place, a special place," McLaughlin recalled about that first purchase.
The geographic oddity caught the attention of McLaughlin, an American businessman who was browsing through antique maps at a shop in London in 1971. He bought it -- and began pursuing a quirky and expensive passion that would lead him to devote an entire room in his San Jose-area home to what is believed to be the largest private collection of such maps. "It was not a very pretty map, but it had the concept that California was a very different place, a special place," McLaughlin recalled about that first purchase.
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David 2012/12/18 22:01:00No
+14I find it hilarious how the majority said yes. Probably because Conservatives are still whining about losing the election. Anyways, here's why California is not a cultural or political island:
Every state is different. The ones who are really backwards are the Southern states for rejecting the Union.
Also, it should be noted that the 17th century map is not of the State of California, it's of Baja California in Mexico; Mar Vermejo/Bermejo (Vermillion Sea) is an old name for the Gulf of California.
John: what do you know you're just an american little bird.
Me: least im not a dirty scouse.
John: OH! IM OFFENDED! *clutches heart in mock horror*
hmm yes i am a dirty scouse xD
earth was flat.
IT IS THE LAND OF FRUITS AND NUTS.
http://www-personal.umich.edu...
I don't think Texas is in any danger of a Communist takeover similar to that in the experience of California.
The website you included in your post was giving figures from 1992 - 2006. A lot has changed in the nearly 7 years since. The years covered in that piece do not even include the last 4 years of Obama and the years of Jerry Brown as Governor of California. Good grief, man, you can come up with better crap that that.