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SwampG8r

(10,287 posts) Fri Mar 9, 2012, 12:05 PM Mar 2012

state by state speak your mind about...nebraska

malcolm x was from nebraska so was johnny carson warren buffet l ron hubbard and the koolaid guy
i point this out to demonstrate what nebraska has been in our culture
nebraska is the deep heartland of our nation
and many of her children are our examples and our role models
her sons and daughters set the bar for the rest of us
its a rich place in terms of agriculture and grows pretty much everything
corn soy pigs cattle
arbor day? nebraska
it was the end point for many black southerners during the Great Migration
nebraska has tried to be the place where america still lives and i thank her for that
but rural exodus is eating away at nebraskas counties
almost all have shrinking populations as more and more move into more urbanized areas chasing opportunities
i will go here one day see it for myself

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state by state speak your mind about...nebraska (Original Post) SwampG8r Mar 2012 OP

Don't forget William Jennings Bryan... TreasonousBastard Mar 2012 #1

I lived there for 7 years Mz Pip Mar 2012 #2

Don't large masses of birds, cranes, I think, descend on an area joeybee12 Mar 2012 #3

Yes. The sandhill crane migration goes through a "bottleneck" in Nebraska in the spring. I've seen Brickbat Mar 2012 #5

Johhny Carson was an Iowan for 8 years before he moved to Nebraska. libinnyandia Mar 2012 #4

And don't forget Henry Fonda, Fred Astaire, Surya Gayatri Mar 2012 #6

Willa Cather, Marie Sandoz, Grace Abbott (helped write Social Security legislation) and Grover Brickbat Mar 2012 #7

NE's remote rural counties are some of the poorest Surya Gayatri Mar 2012 #8

Another place I have lived! dmallind Mar 2012 #9

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)

1. Don't forget William Jennings Bryan...

Reply to SwampG8r (Original post)

Fri Mar 9, 2012, 12:16 PM

Mar 2012

devoutly populist and anti-war, anti-corporatist, and anti-Republican, but pro Creationism, pro Prohibition, and would undoubtedly be pro-life if he were alive today.

Mz Pip

(27,453 posts)

2. I lived there for 7 years

Reply to SwampG8r (Original post)

Fri Mar 9, 2012, 12:25 PM

Mar 2012

in the 50s. I went to a small rural school for Kindergarten and 1st grade. Then we moved to Chicago. Major culture shock!

I'l like to go back for a visit. I have fond memories of it, even though I was pretty little. I'm sure the town has changed, but it is still there and looks like it may have grown a bit.

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)

3. Don't large masses of birds, cranes, I think, descend on an area

Reply to SwampG8r (Original post)

Fri Mar 9, 2012, 12:28 PM

Mar 2012

there in the spring...I hear it's incredible, the sheer number of them...blinds are set up for viewing and it's very popular...I'd like tos ee that someday.

Brickbat

(19,339 posts)

5. Yes. The sandhill crane migration goes through a "bottleneck" in Nebraska in the spring. I've seen

Reply to joeybee12 (Reply #3)

Fri Mar 9, 2012, 12:47 PM

Mar 2012

it twice and it's amazing.

libinnyandia

(1,374 posts)

4. Johhny Carson was an Iowan for 8 years before he moved to Nebraska.

Reply to SwampG8r (Original post)

Fri Mar 9, 2012, 12:39 PM

Mar 2012

Gerald Ford was born in Omaha.

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)

6. And don't forget Henry Fonda, Fred Astaire,

Reply to libinnyandia (Reply #4)

Fri Mar 9, 2012, 01:17 PM

Mar 2012

Marlon Brando, Dick Cavett, Sandy Dennis, and many more that don't spring to mind right now.

For a state with a very low population, NE has exported more than its share of talent.

The brilliant ones tend to leave...
SG

Brickbat

(19,339 posts)

7. Willa Cather, Marie Sandoz, Grace Abbott (helped write Social Security legislation) and Grover

Reply to libinnyandia (Reply #4)

Fri Mar 9, 2012, 01:20 PM

Mar 2012

Cleveland Alexander.

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)

8. NE's remote rural counties are some of the poorest

Reply to SwampG8r (Original post)

Fri Mar 9, 2012, 01:29 PM

Mar 2012

in the US. Vicious circle--depleted tax base, poor schools, brain drain.
The major product from some of those poor counties is methadone. Poverty and meth: a lethal combo.
Real salt of the earth peeps, but stubborn and blinkered, which explains NE's red political hue.
SG

dmallind

(10,437 posts)

9. Another place I have lived!

Reply to SwampG8r (Original post)

Fri Mar 9, 2012, 01:38 PM

Mar 2012

The vast majority of the state's population is in the Omaha-Lincoln corridor on the extreme eastern edge of the state. Anyone who has driven the state's full 400-odd miles east to west knows why

Winds. I've never had to lean a motorcycle that far over to go in a straight line in my life

The people seemed genuinely nice. Not the fakey enthusiasm seen in some places I've visited but genuinely happy to see new residents

There ARE hills! Admittedly they are made of sand and only in the extreme west of the state but they are there

Runzas

I've heard it is technically illegal to vote Dem if your car has county plates

Speaking of county plates, it's nice that the Nebraska DMV helped us identify people likely to be confused by these new fangled illuminated red and green and yellow traffic controls at intersections

Speaking - seriously - of the DMV, it's a truly wonderful experience to go into the office as a new resident and be handed your plates AND drivers license in one visit without having to go through the cavity search and FBI review that, say, New York applies

Having said that, $976 for car tabs should buy a good deal of customer service. So much for low taxes in the Red states

Speaking of excessive taxes, I used to think NE property taxes were unimaginably high. Then I moved to NY. At least in Nebraska that included garbage and recycling service

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