While perusing the April10.org website to find out the particulars of today’s march, I looked at their map of the United States, which is an attention-grabbing graphic.
Then I noticed something peculiar: the map has Utah divided into two states. The border line seems to be at the south end of the Salt Lake valley, thus making Salt Lake City, Park City, Ogden, Logan, the Great Salt Lake and the Uinta Mountains part of the wacky north, and Provo, Moab, St. George, Heber, Utah Lake, Lake Powell and the National Parks part of the silly south.
Did northern Utah secede from southern Utah over the weekend? Do the march organizers know something that I don’t?
And some other questions raised by details on the map:
- Is the Utah protest taking place in Beaver?
- Is the Colorado protest taking place in Steamboat Springs?
- Did Nebraska and Kansas merge into one gigantic state – Kansebraska?
Grey Kitten
12 April 2006 — 15:25
The importance of learning Geography has been downplayed in the US public schools. Applicants for citizenship are required to learn much more about our geography than our own citizen children are.
I recommend games as the solution. Not self-aggrandizing “Educational” games. When they try to be educational, they fail to be engaging and interesting. Rather, something that focuses on being fun, and just happens to be enriched with real world knowledge like history and geography.