West Tennessee is basically an extension of the delta - very little forests with lots of fields/farm land. Also why a majority of Africa Americans in TN live in Memphis and Western TN.
I appreciate the hospitality but I'm good. It really is startling though to someone like me who was born and raised here. When I go to the southeast, I don't want to say I feel claustrophobic but after a while I do feel a bit anxious when I can never see the horizon.
That’s Minnesota. I would know since I was assigned them in my 5th grade state report. Their state muffin is blueberry.
is the 5th grade state report a nationwide phenomenon? we did this too in Georgia and mine was Illinois.
I crushed the Minnesota report. My parents just got a Gateway 2000 with Microsoft Encarta 95 and I paraphrased the fuck out of the Minnesota page. This was back when even a 5th grader could get away with that. Printed that out, with pictures in color, bound it. Total domination.
Comparing the latitude of Europe and North America https://preview.redd.it/b3nl0bqsjkw21.gif?format=mp4&s=d1e7328ff4fc6cbf8cfff78835e47d343ac927ee not sure how to embed
I wore a periodic table shirt to an AP chemistry exam in high school. Radioactive elements glowed in the dark. Teacher made me turn it inside out :-(
Demographics. Oregon, up until basically the 1990's, was a traditionally blue collar state. The logging and mill industry dried up around that time and has left the rural part of the state hurting pretty bad. We also had terrible Republican leadership for decades that royally screwed up our tax system, especially hurting public education funding. There are many reasons, but all probably stem from Oregon historically being an underdeveloped state with a smaller, more rural population. That has started to change the past few decades though with the growth of the more metro areas in the Willamette Valley and Portland.
Also wondering why Maine is so low. I know it's one of the most rural states but no way it's worse than TN.