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13. Interestingly the AZ/NM difference goes way back

Reply to Gore1FL (Reply #11)

Mon Jan 6, 2014, 12:11 AM

Jan 2014

AZ was a pro-Confederate territory and NM was a pro-Union territory. Just one of those weird culture things.

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