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Colorado vs Pennsylvania - I don't see how PA made it this far.
Ignorant comment. Pennsylvania is, for many people, a "goldilocks" state of the Northeast. Not as obscenely cold or expensive, and much more politically balanced/moderate (which is very difficult to find these days with intense polarization). Combined with superior history, great topography, two great urban hubs, and very strong "eds and meds" your comment clearly doesn't account for those factors.
I've noted now a trend of you nutmeggers making not-so-thinly-veiled jabs at PA, and I have no idea why. It's kind of odd, really.
^^I can live anywhere, but I prefer city life. I must say that Philadelphia does not impress me much, which puts PA down a lot for me. I feel the same way about Baltimore. My father went to Carnegie Mellon, however, and has fond memories of Pittsburgh.
^^I can live anywhere, but I prefer city life. I must say that Philadelphia does not impress me much, which puts PA down a lot for me. I feel the same way about Baltimore. My father went to Carnegie Mellon, however, and has fond memories of Pittsburgh.
To each their own. Clearly not everyone feels the same about every place; I just felt it was worth interjecting, obviously PA does still resonate for many people via voting trends.
Ignorant comment. Pennsylvania is, for many people, a "goldilocks" state of the Northeast. Not as obscenely cold or expensive, and much more politically balanced/moderate (which is very difficult to find these days with intense polarization). Combined with superior history, great topography, two great urban hubs, and very strong "eds and meds" your comment clearly doesn't account for those factors.
I've noted now a trend of you nutmeggers making not-so-thinly-veiled jabs at PA, and I have no idea why. It's kind of odd, really.
I think PA is a beautiful state. I'm not much into big cities anywhere - they're fun to visit but that's it for me. I'll take the smaller towns any day. New Hope comes to mind.
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Florida is one of the least interesting states -- topographically -- in America. It is an isthmus of swamps and sinkholes between a gulf and an ocean. The beaches *are* pretty and the Keys are certainly unique but the rest of the state, including the everglades, is eminently forgettable. It's a more boring Kansas with swamps.
I think Kansas is an incredbily underrated state. The southeast corner of the state (Baxter Springs) would hav seemingly nothing in common with the southwest corner of Elkhart. Might as well be two different biospheres. The high point of Kansas is over 4,000 feet, and goes under 1,000 feet in the Missouri River Valley.
I think Kansas is an incredbily underrated state. The southeast corner of the state (Baxter Springs) would hav seemingly nothing in common with the southwest corner of Elkhart. Might as well be two different biospheres. The high point of Kansas is over 4,000 feet, and goes under 1,000 feet in the Missouri River Valley.
...and it's on the high plains.
The Kansas City Star — published in Missouri, it was for years the only newspaper that circulated statewide in Kansas, and in the 1950s, its editor, Roy Roberts, landed on the cover of Time for his role as a kingmaker in Kansas Republican politics (the state was heavily Republican then and still is now, though they do elect Democrats there from time to time, and all the time in Wyandotte County [=Kansas City, KS]) — did a really funny story on that highest point, known as Mount Sunflower.
The article mentioned people looking to climb up Mount Sunflower. "'Stroll' is more like it," the reporter wrote.
But good for you for pointing out southeast Kansas. This was the state's coal-mining region (bet you didn't know they mined coal in Kansas, did you?), and the Kansas City Southern Railroad, which made a bee line due south from KC close to the Missouri state line, veers into this part of the state before heading into Arkansas to serve its largest city, Pittsburg (yes, named after the Pennsylvania city, but it dropped the h from its name at the urging of the United States Board of Geographic Names). And yes, it's like no other part of the state.
Also worth noting, however: Crawford County, of which Pittsburg is the county seat, has a sizable population of Eastern and Central Europeans who settled there to work the coal mines. One other Kansas county has a notable Central/Eastern European immigrant population: Wyandotte, long a center of industry and railroads — I call it "a little bit of the Rust Belt on the prairie" — and the most heavily and reliably Democratic county in the state. Fans of the makeover series "Q***r Eye," which Netflix revived in the late 2010s, may recall one of the episodes from Season 4 (which the Fab Five spent in Kansas City) titled "On Golden Kenny." Its subject, Kenny Yarnevich, often hung out in a Lithuanian social club on KCK's Strawberry Hill — where I recall attending a Russian Orthodox wedding as a child.
AFAIK, Omaha is the only city in the other four states that comes even close to having the level of industry either KCK or Wichita (a center of aircraft manufacturing) has, and most of it is related to food production.
(Personal aside: The Star, btw, is where I cut my teeth, professionally speaking: I was a copy boy there during my high school years and a summer reporting intern the summer before I went to college — the only one the paper ever hired right out of high school.)
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