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“... The criteria for indicating the level of patriotism within a state population consisted of:
-National Historic Landmarks per Capita
-Veterans per Capita
-Money Spent to Fund Veterans
-Percent of Residents That Voted in the Last Presidential Election
-People Who Google For American Flags to buy
-People Who List America as an Interest on Facebook ...”
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I call bullshit on this.
Agreed, its a crap list.
-National Historic Landmarks per Capita: Locations where events happened in the past. Lots of history in my neck of the woods but few monuments since the big events were mostly between the French and Indian wars and the war of 1812.
-Veterans per Capita: The south has been a favored retirement destination since the invention of air conditioning.
-Money Spent to Fund Veterans: Largely federal money following the veterans as they retire in the south.
-Percent of Residents That Voted in the Last Presidential Election; There are any number of reasons people can’t or don’t vote in presidential elections.
-People Who Google For American Flags to buy: Only Google? I’ve never ordered a flag online. I prefer to go to the store and check them out to make sure they’re American made and of high quality.
-People Who List America as an Interest on Facebook.: I avoid facebook like the plague.
Yup, the No. 1 criteria should be “out of state tourists per thousand residents”. Then the top 3 would be Alaska, Hawaii and Florida, and the full silliness would be obvious.