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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Georgie peach obsession is there so we forget about cotton

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, South Carolina is definitely not associated with slavery…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

SC uses different methods to hide it because GA already took the peach thing

[–] 5redie8 2 points 1 year ago

"South Carolina: The literal capital of treason" just doesn't have a good ring to it I guess

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Movin to the country, gonna eat a lot of peaches.

[–] whosdadog 2 points 1 year ago

Peaches come from a can

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Driving up 85 North through SC, all you see are signs for stands selling fireworks and peaches.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And Washington State produces more potatoes than Idaho.

And Wisconsin has more lakes than Minnesota.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wisconsin counts large puddles as lakes. If they used the same criteria as Minnesota, they’d have significant fewer than Minnesota.

But I have no holes to poke in your potato statement. Fuck Idaho.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd be more on board with your lake theory if Minnesota has more lakes if using Wisconsin 's criteria. Otherwise whoever has the largest lakes can just change the definition of lake to weed out everyone else. As far as I know, a lake is simply a body of water surrounded by land. Ponds are just small lakes. Some seas are just large lakes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They do. If Minnesota and Wisconsin used similar criteria, Minnesota would have something like 40k more.

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/which-has-more-lakes-minnesota-or-wisconsin/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It literally says if you use Wisconsin's criteria, Wisconsin comes out ahead. You're just repeating the same argument. The only new info is the USGS puts Michigan ahead but doesn't state the criteria used so it's hard to say. And Wisconsin comes ahead of you count surface area and the portions of the the various great lakes residing in each state.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What? Where does it say that?

Also, The article mentions Lake Michigan, not the state

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since you weren't specific, here's the source paragraphs for both claims:

According to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Minnesota technically has 11,842 lakes. Those lakes are defined as bodies of water 10 acres or more.

According to the Wisconsin DNR, Wisconsin has 15,074 "documented" lakes. Those are defined as bodies of water 2.2 acres or more. Of those lakes, about 6,000 are named.

15k is larger than 12k.

Last claim:

Finally, Minnesota still comes out ahead by counting surface area covered by lakes. But by adding what both states claim for Lake Superior and Michigan, Wisconsin has twice as much lake surface area.

Emphasis mine.

Did you not link the article you thought? Cause it clearly mentions both states. Michigan is definitely mentioned more than just Lake Michigan.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your quoted segments clearly reference the different criteria (10 acres versus 2.2).

And the word “Michigan” appears exactly once in the article: in the second bit you quoted where it clearly refers to the lake.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I feel like you simply never read my initial comment at this point if that's your response.

And I realized I literally just meant to say Minnesota, not Michigan, so you're correct there. But it's a moot point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Being from Georgia I've always said we should've been the peanut state.

[–] coffee_poops 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Georgia used to be the "Goober State" which is a nickname for peanuts. Then it was renamed after all the roads with Peach in theie names.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There are a lot of goobers in Georgia, though. Many under that gold dome.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And Maryland’s famous blue crabs aren’t from Maryland anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago