Budzilla posted:

This should have been posted in the OP. PNAC redrawing of the ME.

Vincent Van Goatse posted:

I've never heard anyone refer to soft drinks as "tonic" except maybe ads from the 1890s. Are you sure they didn't mean tonic water?

Elim Garak posted:

Positive. To give some more information, it was my fathers side of the family, they grew up lower middle class in Waltham, MA. My grandfather was a marine in the Pacific theater in WWII, so maybe it came from there, but I tend to think not since my dad still occasionally said tonic into the early 90's. I'd think if it was something his peers weren't saying as a kid he would have dropped it. His father, sister and her children all said it at least until '94 or '95 when my grandfather died and a rift in the family prevented me from observing the evolution of the vernacular. But yeah, it was definitely all fizzy soft drinks.

Edit: http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/308-the-pop-vs-soda-map mentions it fading in popularity in the Boston area. This was the map I was thinking of when I said earlier that I guessed tonic wasn't showing up anymore, but it doesn't even show up on this map. Also if you google soda vs pop vs tonic there's a Boston Globe article about it but it's subscriber-only.

lonelywurm posted:

On the 2000 census, 32,765 people nationwide identified their ancestry as "Texas". A further 6,510 reported it as "Southerner". That said, it looks like every state had at least some people use it to identify their ancestry, though the next-largest (California) is only at 8,000 and some.

You can look at it yourself, XLS link down near the bottom of the page: http://www.census.gov/population/ancestry/data/

the jizz taxi posted:

PrinceRandom posted:

I think that trying to paint the world in 5 (Ostentatiously 7 since South Asia sans Pakistan is it's own color and Burma is unreported) is kinda superficial from the get go.

PrinceRandom posted:

That's what I said ?

MrMenshevik posted:

Yuengling only distributes near their breweries which really restricts their range. I was shocked to learn you can't buy it in Boston after getting a taste for it in suburban Alabama. It is possibly the only thing Birmingham does better than Boston.

Phlegmish posted:

In the case of a lot of cognates, the German 'ei' becomes 'ij' in Dutch. That's probably why you have that impression. And yes, you are a horrible racist, albeit a highly specific type of racist.

Aztec Empire right before the arrival of Cortés:



Looking at the extent of the tributary states versus the core area, it doesn't surprise me that he was able to find so many native allies.

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Zohar posted:

Well there are academics in Russia now who view the US as inherently unstable,* plenty of people see China as inherently unstable, etc. The idea that Austria-Hungary was on the path to collapse certainly wasn't a mainstream view at the time (and "inherently unstable" can mean a lot of things so I don't know if that's what the source you're reading actually says or if it's an interpolation), and France and Austria-Hungary were in any case major rivals at the time. In 1904, for instance, Teddy Roosevelt said that Austria-Hungary's treatment of nationalities was a model the US ought to follow.

*For content:

Shbobdb posted:

As an interesting aside: HOLY poo poo, loving NOBODY LIVES IN AMERICA.

marktheando posted:

That's almost entirely in the eastern half of the country though! I'm assuming the term has just stuck around from before the US expanded westward?