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How did the QC universe get so different from ours?
JReynolds:
How did the QC universe get so different from ours? The magic wands and pixie dust of Jeph's imagination!
Rocketman:
--- Quote from: MrSteevo on 08 Apr 2008, 17:39 ---Here we go:
http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=327
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"The South shall rise again" originally referred to the desire to reverse the loss of relative economic strength since the birth of the Confederacy. When the CSA was born, it was the fourth-richest country in the world, after the North, Britain, and France. The four years of war and blockade, loss of its major international cotton buyers (and general Confederate resentment to the Europeans would stood by and watched as their country burned), the collapse of the plantation economy, and a much smaller base to build upon compared to the Union, the European Empires and the united Germany resulted in a relatively small Southern economic power.
The slogan got picked up by the more right-wing elements of Confederate society, including those who want to take Kentucky and the other 'border states' from the North. Largely ignored, even in the South, they still make enough noise to be a common joke in both Americas.
NASCAR, well, Marten just doesn't know much about NASCAR.
Border Reiver:
what's to know about NASCAR? Cars drive around an oval track - people get drunk and go "Damn that's fast!" sometimes there are crashes, but generally it looks pretty boring.
Surgoshan:
So does football. So does baseball. And basketball, for that matter.
Once you know what's actually going on, though, things get interesting.
sbakerj:
mmmm... golf.
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