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no_hypocrisy

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Wed Sep-29-04 03:01 PM
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12. Kansas has traditionally been a lightening rod historically.

1. Bloody Kansas - admission of slave states to the Union.
2. Operation Rescue - shutting down legal abortion clinics.
3. Populism via William Jennings Bryan ("Cross of Gold" speech
http://www.kancoll.org/articles/speeches/bryan.htm )
4. Scopes, Part II - evolution taught in public schools and published in school textbooks.

Kansas is the jumping-off point for starting national social and societal campaigns. The populace is receptive enough and the campaigns attract mostly out-of-staters whom people think are natives (numbers count).

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