NY Times Op-Ed: Nebraska's Lonely Progressives

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/27/opinion/nebraskas-lonely-progressives.html

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LINCOLN, Neb. — WHEN I travel to the East or West Coasts, people sometimes ask me, “Why do you live in Nebraska?” Or even, “Have you considered moving?” Outsiders often believe Nebraska is a nondescript state with little to recommend it in culture, politics or landscape. But I reply that Nebraska is my home and that I love its people and its geography. To me there is nothing more beautiful than the muddy Platte River or the vast undulating Sand Hills. Of course, our state can be blistering in the summer, arctic in the winter. It’s a windswept, spare place designed to toughen up its inhabitants.
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Also cross-posting in Politics 2014.

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1. We knew Mary Pipher when we were living in Lincoln.

We moved there in 1994 and left in 2000. Nebraska has become more red over the years, losing
its Dem governor and senators. She's right about a handful of progressives...and that's about it. When we moved,
I said the state motto should be "ignorant and proud of it".

In fact, I just went to Wikipedia to look at the list of US Senators from NE over time and discovered someone had edited
out both Democrats Bob Kerrey and Ben Nelson.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Senators_from_Nebraska

They don't appear in the list of Senators. If anyone knows how to
fix that kind of Wikipedia entry, please, have at it. Bob Kerrey was the Senator from Nebraska from January 3, 1989 – January 3, 2001
and Ben Nelson took his seat and was Senator from January 3, 2001 – January 3, 2013 (even if he was a lousy Dem).