all these federal DC commuters coming to live on streets named after Confederate generals
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I visited the spot in Alexandria VA where the 1st civil war casualty happened
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Army officer tried to get a guy to take down his Confederate flag and the guy shot him
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the more things change I guess
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But I think is more about how states in the US develop an identity out of isolation and oversized territory.
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well we started with states that legitimately had a very long history as separate colonies before independence
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and that became a cultural expectation of new states as they were created
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I can imagine, here the attempt to unite three separate colonies (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador) failed...
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ah yeah Gran Colombia under Bolivar right?
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...when the provinces started to pact with Spain when the war was turning against him.
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I read about this history when I was a DC tour guide doing stuff around the Avenue of the Liberators and the OAS
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we have Bolivar and Artigas and Juarez lined up in a row
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pretending like we're all New World friends
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