http://sync.democraticunderground.com/1002404447
Oh my.
The swamped primitive's doing a state-by-state survey, about what the primitives think of a state.
SwampG8r (8,209 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
state by state speak your mind about...nebraska
malcolm x was from nebraska so was johnny carson warren buffet l ron hubbard and the koolaid guy
i point this out to demonstrate what nebraska has been in our culture
nebraska is the deep heartland of our nation and many of her children are our examples and our role models
her sons and daughters set the bar for the rest of us
its a rich place in terms of agriculture and grows pretty much everything
corn soy pigs cattle
arbor day? nebraska
it was the end point for many black southerners during the Great Migration
nebraska has tried to be the place where america still lives and i thank her for that but rural exodus is eating away at nebraskas counties
almost all have shrinking populations as more and more move into more urbanized areas chasing opportunities
i will go here one day see it for myself
TreasonousBastard (18,990 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
1. Don't forget William Jennings Bryan...
devoutly populist and anti-war, anti-corporatist, and anti-Republican, but pro Creationism, pro Prohibition, and would undoubtedly be pro-life if he were alive today.
Mz Pip (22,896 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
2. I lived there for 7 years in the 50s. I went to a small rural school for Kindergarten and 1st grade. Then we moved to Chicago. Major culture shock!
I'l like to go back for a visit. I have fond memories of it, even though I was pretty little. I'm sure the town has changed, but it is still there and looks like it may have grown a bit.
joeybee12 (37,055 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
3. Don't large masses of birds, cranes, I think, descend on an area
there in the spring...I hear it's incredible, the sheer number of them...blinds are set up for viewing and it's very popular...I'd like tos ee that someday.
Ho-hum.
The Sandhills cranes.
Odd, how visitors rave over a phenomenon Nebraskans are used to.
And franksolich gets those damned bald eagles all over the place in summer.
Nature's pretty to look at, but it ain't no fun to live in.
Brickbat (11,679 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
5. Yes. The sandhill crane migration goes through a "bottleneck" in Nebraska in the spring. I've seen it twice and it's amazing.
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libinnyandia (1,061 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
4. Johhny Carson was an Iowan for 8 years before he moved to Nebraska.
Gerald Ford was born in Omaha.
Surya Gayatri (2,635 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
6. And don't forget Henry Fonda, Fred Astaire,
Marlon Brando, Dick Cavett, Sandy Dennis, and many more that don't spring to mind right now.
For a state with a very low population, NE has exported more than its share of talent.
The brilliant ones tend to leave...
Brickbat (11,679 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
7. Willa Cather, Marie Sandoz, Grace Abbott (helped write Social Security legislation) and Grover Cleveland Alexander.
Surya Gayatri (2,635 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
8. NE's remote rural counties are some of the poorest in the US. Vicious circle--depleted tax base, poor schools, brain drain.
The major product from some of those poor counties is methadone. Poverty and meth: a lethal combo.
Real salt of the earth peeps, but stubborn and blinkered, which explains NE's red political hue.
dmallind (9,447 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
9. Another place I have lived!
The vast majority of the state's population is in the Omaha-Lincoln corridor on the extreme eastern edge of the state. Anyone who has driven the state's full 400-odd miles east to west knows why
Winds. I've never had to lean a motorcycle that far over to go in a straight line in my life
The people seemed genuinely nice. Not the fakey enthusiasm seen in some places I've visited but genuinely happy to see new residents
There ARE hills! Admittedly they are made of sand and only in the extreme west of the state but they are there
Runzas
I've heard it is technically illegal to vote Dem if your car has county plates
Speaking of county plates, it's nice that the Nebraska DMV helped us identify people likely to be confused by these new fangled illuminated red and green and yellow traffic controls at intersections
Speaking - seriously - of the DMV, it's a truly wonderful experience to go into the office as a new resident and be handed your plates AND drivers license in one visit without having to go through the cavity search and FBI review that, say, New York applies
Having said that, $976 for car tabs should buy a good deal of customer service. So much for low taxes in the Red states
Speaking of excessive taxes, I used to think NE property taxes were unimaginably high. Then I moved to NY. At least in Nebraska that included garbage and recycling service
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