The south doesn't count.
MA had better PR-- especially in the 19th century and the Civil War.
They also fail to mention that (Captain) John Smith mapped and named "New England."
It's all up to the spinmeisters... as it still is...

--
Melinda C. P. Skinner
Richmond, VA


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From: Sunshine49 <[log in to unmask]>
> What??!! On what grounds? Some years ago Mass. [Boston] was trying to  
> lay claim to the first commercial electric streetcar system in the  
> US, till Richmonders set them straight. Hmmm, when he was running for  
> Gov. and the Boston Globe was touting him as the first black governor  
> in the US, assuming he won, I wrote and informed them that he'd be  
> the second. I'm sure I wasn't the only one who told them. Do those  
> people even bother to look up things before they spout off?  
> [evidently not].
> 
> Nancy
> 
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> 
> --Daniel Boone
> 
> 
> 
> On Feb 2, 2007, at 8:14 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> 
> >
> > In a message dated 2/1/2007 4:15:07 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> > [log in to unmask] writes:
> >
> > Doesn't  Virginia have the oldest continuous legislative body in the
> > New  World, beginning in Jamestown in 1619? That's worth noting,  too
> >
> >
> > well you better tell the new Gov, of Mass that..I hear him give a  
> > speech at
> > that is was MAss with the oldest legislative body in the  US
> >
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