Re: CHAT: national identity

Brian Betty and others wrote:

>"If one accepts California's claim that it was an independent republic,
>then you cannot say, e.g., that Virginia is a State; officially speaking,
>it's a Commonwealth. :)"
>
>So is Massachusetts, except for the People's Republic of Cambridge. My
>Hawai'ian friends also sometimes refer to their state jokingly as "The
>People's Republic of Hawai'i"as well. This is also true of Oberlin, OH
>residents - but they call Oberlin "The People's BGLT Republic of Oberlin."
And I grew up in the Republic of Fredonia.  Oops -- I meant Nacogdoches,
Texas.  (That was an interesting chapter of Texas history, when Hayden
Edwards led a group of Anglo Protestant slave-owners to secede internally
from Mexico, which of course was Catholic and abolitionist...)

Danny


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