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You could have made the same claims about parts of remote Appalachia.

No you can't. And there is no such place as "remote Appalachia". This is 2015.

[Vermont Lt]

You should go get your money back from whomever taught you to read.

I wrote could have. Past tense. As in the 1800’s and early 1900’s before the advent of mechanized transportation.