Posted on 07/22/2010 8:02:15 AM PDT by AccuracyAcademia
Confederacy of Dunces
Deborah Lambert, July 21, 2010
Believe it or not, a new opinion poll found that a significant number of Americans do not know the answer to this question: “From which country did the United States win its independence?”
Boston.com reported that 26 percent of respondents did not know that the U.S. won its independence from Great Britain, according to a Marist Poll. Six percent believed that the country could have been France, China, Japan, Mexico or Spain.
Thirty-two percent of Southerners weren’t sure or picked the wrong country compared to 16% of respondents in the Northeast....
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We have elected leaders who believe the USA has 57 states.
Simple Simon Says -
“No History Lessons, Stewid Kids and eventually Stoped Adults which helps our country control it’s destiny to be controled by the Elite class.
Pathetic. Even 16% getting it wrong is completely embarrassing. But I do believe this is being done intentionally. Our history is being erased.
This country has cornered the stupidty market.
I wonder how many of those polled were illegals.
Geez, it was the Ottoman Empire!! Everyone who stayed awake during social studies class knows that one!!
What morons!!
/sarc
Interestingly enough, zero inadvertently revealed more of himself than he intended when he said that. Fortunately, the DBM glossed over it for him. There are 57 ISLAMIC states!!
36%!!!
STOOPED DN CRACKERS!
Public education and Teachers unions are both failures.
SOOOOO, let’s throw billions more at that little failure.
Same as for the Africa black hole.
Just spend more money, lots more money.
Hey, Gunny! Lookie over here! This thread needs some of your graphics....
Interesting. A "group" has an account here.
15 threads, 2 comments.
Hmmmmmm...
...and signed up 7/7/10. This is a Blog Pimp if I’ve ever seen one.
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This is the Alvin Greene voter base.
They were never taught this in the government schools. The point of the government schools is to teach things like man-made global warming and the racial oppression of America.
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