Message from @oprahsminge

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2018-10-03 11:50:17 UTC  

To Kill A Mockingbird and The Scarlet Letter were pretty standard, but the curricula have been shifting and it's no longer a given people will read any particular book. Just as it has become standard to use *A People's History* as the standard History textbook, I got a hunch a number of school districts have removed these books from the curricula for more contemporaneous and politically-oriented flair.

50 years ago, everyone was required to read *The Federalist Papers,* Now you can't even find humanities college graduates who have read any of them.

2018-10-03 11:50:56 UTC  

And colleges will discipline people for handing out copies of the constitution.

2018-10-03 11:52:25 UTC  

That said, I don't have any data personally on what is being taught at local primary schools.

2018-10-03 12:20:50 UTC  

I've never read either but I did watch *Easy A* with Emma Stone a couple of years ago

2018-10-03 13:16:35 UTC  

@pratel my school required it. I believe that my son's school he will go to later requires it as well

2018-10-03 13:17:09 UTC  

But I'm trying to move him into the GT courses now in elementary school

2018-10-03 13:17:16 UTC  

So I dunno if it changes anything

2018-10-03 13:17:25 UTC  

"it" being which book?

2018-10-03 13:17:35 UTC  

The two you mentioned

2018-10-03 13:17:47 UTC  

To kill a mockingbird and scarlet letter

2018-10-03 13:18:00 UTC  

Is this a red district/state or blue?

2018-10-03 13:18:14 UTC  

Blue

2018-10-03 13:18:23 UTC  

But we have a red governor. Flips back and forth

2018-10-03 13:18:44 UTC  

Maryland is a bit of a mixture. It's only solidly blue for presidential elections

2018-10-03 13:18:51 UTC  

And maybe senatorial ones

2018-10-03 13:19:12 UTC  

It's not like most blue places

2018-10-03 13:19:19 UTC  

Imo

2018-10-03 13:19:37 UTC  

MD always seemed pretty Blue to me. I went to DMV and felt completely out of place in MD. But I'll bite.

2018-10-03 13:19:51 UTC  

I've just lived here my whole life

2018-10-03 13:19:51 UTC  

Ironically, felt much more in place in PA.

2018-10-03 13:20:02 UTC  

Yeah pa is way more blue than here

2018-10-03 13:20:17 UTC  

It probably helped I was in western PA.

2018-10-03 13:20:22 UTC  

Yeah

2018-10-03 13:20:35 UTC  

But Philly didn't seem as blue as MD to me.

2018-10-03 13:20:45 UTC  

But it would have also been the DC side of MD too.

2018-10-03 13:20:48 UTC  

Where did you go?

2018-10-03 13:20:53 UTC  

I compared it to VA.

2018-10-03 13:20:54 UTC  

In md

2018-10-03 13:21:00 UTC  

Around DC.

2018-10-03 13:21:23 UTC  

Oh well yeah. That's blue af

2018-10-03 13:21:50 UTC  

When you go pretty much anywhere else it gets pretty red

2018-10-03 13:22:06 UTC  

Montgomery, prince George's counties are really blue. Deep blue

2018-10-03 13:22:40 UTC  

Yeah, I got the impression rich Democrats live in MD. Business happens in DC and Republicans find places in VA.

2018-10-03 13:22:50 UTC  

They live around DC so yeah

2018-10-03 13:22:55 UTC  

Though VA has been trending blue due to DC.

2018-10-03 13:23:24 UTC  

You also have to remember a lot of Republicans aren't exactly wide open about it the way Dems are

2018-10-03 13:23:38 UTC  

You can spot a Dem

2018-10-03 13:23:56 UTC  

It's a bit harder to find the Republican unless they're old and you're assuming it

2018-10-03 13:24:23 UTC  

I think that's actually a problem with Republicans.

2018-10-03 13:24:31 UTC  

I was surprised by how many people love Hogan as governor

2018-10-03 13:24:34 UTC  

It creates a situation where the left is always dominating the conversation.