Comments | kiwi_dragonfly: Take that, California!

kiwi_dragonfly

Take that, California!

Apr 03, 2009 15:25

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed my time living in California and I love me many a Californian. In fact, I am in love with a Californian. And I could very happily live in certain parts of the state of California again. But after 5 years of getting condescended to about where I come from by people in the fine state of California, who proved to me ( Read more... )

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Check out this link... kiwi_dragonfly April 5 2009, 20:58:47 UTC

...if any of you are interested enough. It's a brief synopsis about the history of progressive thinking in Iowa's court system, going back to the 1860s, when Iowa courts ruled that segregation of schools was ILLEGAL - almost a century before most of the rest of the U.S. states followed suit. Matt is right that Iowa can be mind-numbingly boring, but that doesn't keep me from being extremely proud to be from there!

http://www.oneiowa.org/courts_history.html

Re: Check out this link... walrusjester April 5 2009, 22:35:53 UTC

Oh, I'm proud. It's a good place to be raising kids, and a good place to live. But boring. Which is probably why I got so adept at making my own fun, and at getting you in trouble.