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...State, famous for potatoes, continuous snow in winter, and Ruby Ridge, sometimes seems like two states in one: the southern section, with its flourishing high-tech industries and conservative Republican politics, influenced by the substantial Mormon population that migrated north from Utah in the 1860s, and the more remote northern areas, filled with Idaho's notorious militias and survivalists. At some level, resentment of government seems to unite the Idaho population, probably because the Feds own 65% of the state's land, including national forest and wilderness areas; and this year's hot-button issue is the huge Idaho National...
When questioned on the relevance of his own party to the American political process, Stowe cites the gains made by the new Republican party in the 1850s and 1860s as an example worthy of emulation...
...crimes of the Nazi state were perhaps more shocking than those of the Confederacy because the Germans regressed from modernity to primitive cruelty. In the 1860s, the South had not yet progressed to a modern mindset. Even a century later, it was painfully obvious that the South had made few steps away from its abject backwardness. Just a generation ago, the South shocked the entire world with its inhuman brutality-footage of redneck goons attacking peaceable black men, women and children with pressurized fire hoses and police dogs was broad-cast to millions...
Sancton's great-grandfather emigrated in the 1860s from Bordeaux to New Orleans, where Sancton grew up. Since first visiting France in 1971, Sancton has spent more than half his adult life in Paris--in the '70s as a Rhodes scholar writing his doctoral thesis ("America in the Eyes of the French Left, 1848-1871"), in the '80s as a TIME correspondent and since January 1993 as the head of our bureau. Helping deepen his Gallic roots are his French wife Sylvaine and their two binational children, Sandy, 26, and Julian...
Alcott was such an author. In the 1860s, she published dozens of tales under the pseudonym of M. Barnard...