<blockquote>And now what do we get? We're the fucking Arrogant Northeast Liberal Elite? How about this for arrogant: the South is the Real America? The Authentic America. Really?
Cause we fucking founded this country, assholes. Those Founding Fathers you keep going on and on about? All that bullshit about what you think they meant by the Second Amendment giving you the right to keep your assault weapons in the glove compartment because you didn't bother to read the first half of the fucking sentence? Who do you think those wig-wearing lacy-shirt sporting revolutionaries were? They were fucking blue-staters, dickhead. Boston? Philadelphia? New York? Hello? Think there might be a reason all the fucking monuments are up here in our backyard?
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Just like the American Crisis of 2004 (cf. <http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/11/call-on-ohio-democratic-and-green.html> and <http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/11/open-letter-to-michael-ralph-dog-john.html>), however, the origin of the American Revolution lay in the Ohio Country, the territory on which England and France staked competing claims: <http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/ohc/history/h_indian/maps/ocountry.shtml>.
In 1748, rich Virginians established the Ohio Company, one of whose investors was George Washington, to settle whites in the Ohio Country. The Ohio Company's greed for land precipitated the French and Indian War (1756-1763). The French lost, the British Empire waxed triumphant, but the British victory was short-lived.
The high costs of the French and Indian War led the British government to impose new taxes on colonists and check their westward expansion in order to minimize further conflicts with Indians -- the changes that sparked the American Revolution.
A Nader/Camejo/Green Party supporter in the Lavender City of Columbus (lesbians galore!) in the Deep Purple state of Ohio, -- Yoshie
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