History Challenge
Here's a challenge for you all.
Name a major contribution to the United States that ANY state of the former Confederacy has made, ever.
I am looking for innovations like: mass production, the transistor, the internet, television, radio, heart surgery, MRI, etc. not things like: KSC (Florida), Oakridge (Tenn.), or other federal creations.
(Note: New Orleans alone is going to cost about as much as Sept 11th for New York, the three states affected by Katrina only make up 3% of GDP however)
Name a major contribution to the United States that ANY state of the former Confederacy has made, ever.
I am looking for innovations like: mass production, the transistor, the internet, television, radio, heart surgery, MRI, etc. not things like: KSC (Florida), Oakridge (Tenn.), or other federal creations.
(Note: New Orleans alone is going to cost about as much as Sept 11th for New York, the three states affected by Katrina only make up 3% of GDP however)
3 Comments:
The cotton gin and half a thousand things to do with a peanut are the first that come to mind.
But, facetious answers aside, your post seems to be suggesting that because Mississippi and Louisiana are two of the poorest states in the nation, they are less worthy of aid than if they were a top GDP-ranked state?
I'm the last one to support any sort of chronic aid, like welfare, to anyone but disaster relief is completely different animal.
Care to elaborate your reasoning here?
It was more along the lines why the Civil War was stupid as well as Unconsitutional.
Of course I had to look some stuff up on the ol' wikipedia to see if my memory served me right.
Eli Whitney was born and raised in New England and hardly ever left.
George Washington Carver was from MO. So I guess that kind of counts as a confederate state (since it was ripped in two, at least it didn't form north and south or in the case of Virginia east and west)
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