[EDIT: Or I could just get distracted by my Dad watching a taped stage from le Tour and leave the box open then go to all the trouble of finding a question only to see my turn stollen. ]
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I'm going to have to correct you on that answer, katharina. The six flags are the six national flags that have flown over Texas. It's the Texas National flag. It just happens to look identical to the current Texas state flag.
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Speaking of Louie, Louie... which state officially had that as their state song for a short time????
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Good work FG. I am so sly. You gotta love Montana's pacifist Jeanette Rankin - the only congress member to vote against entering WWII.
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There has yet to be a correct answer to my question. Or at least, not that I know of . . . I have no idea what the state song of Iowa is, or what it sounds like.
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Iowa and Michigan use the same tune. I think there was one other - three -- total that use that tune. That is why it was my guess initially rivka.
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Not Georgia! Theirs is "Georgia on my Mind". Only because it's a cool enough state that people write songs about it. States like Iowa have to use "Tannenbaum" because, well, it's IOWA.
Actually, this reminds me of a funny thing. My friend Michelle recently studied in Italy and met a nice young man there who was a nut about the U.S. She was visiting his house and his bedroom was plastered with American paraphenalia, including a giant map of, of all places, the state of Iowa. In halting English he pointed to it and asked Michelle, "You...you like Iowa?"
She said, "I guess...but, I mean, why Iowa?"
He looked confused until she said, "If you're going to pick a favorite state, let me tell you that you shouldn't bother with the ones in the middle. The good ones are all along the borders."
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Just so you know, Dana, I was kidding. My husband's family lived in Iowa for a long time and he was born there. Posts: 6367 | Registered: Aug 2003
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If that's not right, then maybe they're the "Aryan nations corridor."
Funny story on that note:
I was in charge of the Montana booth in the "Parade of States" at National FFA Convention in 1999. (Don't laugh! 50,000 hicks is no laughing matter!)
A couple members and their advisor from Mississippi (the great thing about FFA events is that everyone has their location written across the back of their jacket and their name on the front) came up and were asking me about Montana. I had all kinds of info on our crops and ag economy, but then the advisor asked, "Do y'all got them Aryan nation groups up there?"
"Um, yeah, a few," I answered, embarrassed.
"This guy here," he indicated one of his students, "plans to join 'em."
Indeed. He had the confederate belt buckle and everything. I toyed briefly with the idea of sending them over to my friend Seth, the Idaho state president down the aisle, but them I decided it wasn't appropriate to laugh it off.
"Well, that's too bad," I said. "That type of mentality goes against everything this organization we represent stands for."
They left without saying much else.
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