• HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    In the exceptional republic that is the US of A, California is truly exceptional – and that grates with much of the rest of the country. It, and the people who hail from it, are too big, too rich, too inventive, too liberal – and altogether just too much, if you are from anywhere else, that is.

    I had to stop reading because that paragraph made me vomit too many times.

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    1 month ago

    Really? Do you know how fucking infrequent presidents are? We haven’t even had one per state yet.

    What an absolutely stupid fucking premise.

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      “We haven’t even had one per state yet”

      Ooh… I see a chart:

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States_by_home_state

      Twenty-one states have the distinction of being the birthplace of a president.

      One: Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and South Carolina.

      Two: North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Vermont

      Four: Massachusetts

      Five: New York

      Seven: Ohio

      Eight: Virginia

      By “State of primary affiliation”

      One - Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania

      Three - California, Illinois, Tennessee, and Texas

      Four - Massachusetts

      Five - Virginia

      Six - Ohio

      Seven - New York