Word: southernization
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...even while I am wholeheartedly caught up in Obamania, I nonetheless can’t help but think back to this fall, which I spent in Ashtabula County, Ohio, campaigning for Obama. I was a field organizer in the mostly rural townships in the southern part of the county where I spent my days knocking on the doors and calling the homes of undecided voters. My experience in the rural stretches of Ashtabula Country was that people weren’t seeing Obama in messianic terms...
...healthcare coverage. Homes everywhere are being foreclosed. The mall has almost as many empty storefronts as occupied ones. There is no Starbucks in Ashtabula. The home I lived in the first month I was there didn’t have cell phone reception, and many people in the southern half of the county—everything south of the 90 freeway—can’t get access to high speed Internet...
...attending a nearby military school rode waves on redwood boards. In the ensuing years, Santa Cruz became headquarters for surfboard shapers and wet-suit makers and fostered an entirely new beach culture, one that's become popular even in landlocked locales. The city even once sued Huntington Beach in Southern California over the rights to the name "Surf City." (Both cities continue to use the nickname.) (See a picture of Barack Obama bodysurfing...
...There is no place to contemplate the history of France in its totality," Sarkozy said in a Jan. 13 address on culture in the southern city of Nîmes, where he had traveled to announce his idea for what's been dubbed la Maison de l'Histoire de France. "We have no big museum worthy of that name. There are several ideas on this, and they must be debated. We need a bit of arguing about this...
...sign a truce with Israel, rather than following Israel's example of declaring its own, it may be only days or weeks before the Islamists or any of the myriad militant groups in Gaza decide to take revenge for the Israeli assault and again start firing rockets into southern Israel. And that, judging from Olmert's warning, would result in Israel again pummeling Gaza...