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To: lepton

You forgot France. :) Austria and Ireland too. West Germany, Switzerland, and The Netherlands were 50-50. Some in Latin America were democratic then, off and on. Which ones exactly, I don't know. Chile was except for the Allende and Pinochet era. Costa Rica has always been.


402 posted on 06/29/2004 9:55:47 PM PDT by Torie
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To: Torie
You forgot France. :) Austria and Ireland too. West Germany, Switzerland, and The Netherlands were 50-50.

Of your list there, I'll concede Ireland - though it was rather dominated by the U.K...the others were mixed or secular.

Point is, as you noted, the dominoes do fall, and today, instead of being a rarity, democracy of some sort is the rule.

428 posted on 06/29/2004 10:31:14 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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