Our willingness to rid ourselves of slavery early up here would've helped in keeping us more conservative. Reagardless, if we were two seperate countries the last 200 and some years, we might be speaking German or Japanese by now anyway, or perhhaps Balkanized.
Or Russian!
64 posted on 08/26/2003 7:37:05 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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