I'd like to recognize all 15 American colonies on this Independence Day.

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9. there are many artifacts of west florida

remaining in the southern counties of alabama and mississippi. our (la) 5 florida parishes also retain cultural aspects of spanish occupation. a new state, capitaled at biloxi or mobile, would be surprisingly liberal and predominately catholic (which probably drove the break up of west florida into chunks of the "piney woods" south.)

sam hyde is a historian who writes about west florida in general and "bloody tangipahoa" parish in particular.

https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/communities/livingston_tangipahoa/southeastern-professors-book-looks-at-pistols-and-politics-in-the-florida-parishes/article_016bb8e2-8475-11e8-9e07-af8e9b386be9.html

have you heard the legend of the "singing river?"




















































































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