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Cake day: February 2nd, 2024
  • Lemmeenym@lemm.eetoVexillology@lemmy.world•Flag of the US but Constitutional instead of TerritorialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    99% of all Americans today either are an immigrant themselves or have an ancestor within living memory who was one

    That’s a shocking stat to me. My perspective is probably skewed because I am from a small town in central Appalachia so nearly everyone in the county was from one of the families that settled the area shortly before the American Revolution. I would have assumed the percentage of people whose families immigrated here before the Civil War was much higher.

  • Lemmeenym@lemm.eetoChat@beehaw.org•Who would your preferred Dem be for the new nominee?English
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    4 months ago

    Elaine Kagen. She can step down from SCOTUS and let Biden nominate her replacement. She has good national name recognition and lots of public writing on every important topic. She would trounce Trump in a debate. It’s basically impossible to challenge her qualifications. She is a little older at 64 but much younger than Trump or Biden. She’s actually a little short of the normal retirement age. I actually prefer Sotomayor and thought of this for her but she’s a little older than Kagen.