After a visit with my parents in Colorado Springs, sometimes called America's Most Conservative City, I was driving North towards Denver. A few hundred yards before the notorious, and taxpayer paid for, sign
was another sign,National Headquarters
Focus On The Family
Next ExitAdopt A Highway Program
Litter Control
Pikes Peak LGBT Center
I wonder how many people notice the juxtaposition and the irony.
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Actually it's "Colorado's" most conservative city. It would fit right in with Kansas right next door but still be not be quite as conservative as they are. Colorado (and New Mexico) are considered the high ground states and are surrounded on all sides. We figure that Dr. Dobson was once a plumber at one time so that is where he decided to establish his headquarters. (Shit flows downhill.)
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People never seem to notice annoying signage. Tennessee has a sign along its east-west Interstate that says;
Nathan Bedford
Forrest
State Park
It is a memorial for Nathan Bedford Forrest, the founder of the KKK.
You are kidding right. Even TN can not be that bad in.Originally Posted by Sweetpickle
>>Damn, Tennessee is that effed up
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http://tn.gov/environment/parks/NBForrest/
Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park
1825 Pilot Knob Road
Eva , TN 38333
Directions
Take Exit 126 on Interstate 40 and travel North on Hwy. 641 for 15 miles to Camden. Turn right on Highway 70 East (do not take the 70 By-pass) at the traffic signal. Follow the signs to the park.
“They also call it the Winged Isle. Some say it is because the island, if seen from above, would look like butterfly wings. And I do not know the truth of it.” Then, “ ‘And what is truth?’ said jesting Pilate.” From: The Truth Is A Cave In The Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman.
I think the guy also was quite a cavalry officer during the Civil War. I was kind of surprised when I lived in Tennessee that some folks talked about the battle down the road like it was last year, not 120 years ago. I gathered that if you are not from there, it is hard to understand the importance they put on the battles and the players.
You know at some point in time the south has got to come to grips with the fact that they lost the Civil War.
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Nathan Bedford Forrest may or may not have been a Klucker. He most assuredly was not the founder of the Klan. He may or may not have been the first president of the TN iteration of the KKK. History is very dim on this point.
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