On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 11:57:03AM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:47:04PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > Fun fact: Today is Oregon Day. On this day in 1859, Oregon became the > > US's 33rd state, the result of the Vote at Champoeg, in which two > > Canadians wanted dead or alive tipped the vote from 49/50 to 51/50 in > > favor of becoming a US state instead of a Canadian province. > > Retrospectively, this is considered the worst thing to happen to > > Oregon as it leaves the international boundary on the wrong side of > > the state, something that has left us completely defenseless against > > political and migratory abuse by California (everybody stop moving > > here, Oregon's full now, not that anybody was welcome to begin with). > > Please take your tripe elsewhere. In the U.S. people are free to move > from state to state without restriction. Get over it. Replace > Californian with nigger/jew/whop/chink/irish/injun/wetback/etc. and > see how palatable your xenophobia becomes. > > More people move to California in any given year than Oregon and > California is similarly "defenseless" against these migrations. Since > this is largely an economic decision, the solution lies in: (1) make > Oregon a prohibitively expensive place to live; and (2) make Oregon a > prohibitively expensive place to do business. If you succeed in both of > those, I'm sure migrations will dwindle to a trickle. Of course, it > might make Oregon a less desirable place to live for the "natives" as > well. > > -- Thank you very much. You are my new hero of the day. I was getting a little tired at the californian bashing as well. Ethnocentrism has little place in an otherwise noble organization such as this.
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