View of farm fields, Johnson County, Iowa (2003)
Iowa is still dominated by the descendants of white European immigrants who showed up here in the 19th century and have farmed this land ever since. The state, however, is anything but a quaint picture postcard, and when presidential hopefuls descend every four years, glad-handing their way through a string of pancake breakfasts and highway diners with the national media in tow, they risk the ire of the very people they are trying to woo. And some pay the political price. Just ask Mitt Romney. Continue »
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You keep forgetting the truth the white eroupeons and thier descendants murdered the original peoples of Turtle Island to make room for thier sickness of greed and places like this only keeps the ignorance rampant.
Posted by: The Big Raven on 04/02/08 at 8:42 AM Respond
I agree, the inhabitants of Turtle Island have lived here since the beginning of time, and the U.S. is only a passing political entity that has laid waste to the land. I'm from Iowa and it is indeed a wasteland made by sick Europeans, those Great Takers!
Posted by: The Squirl Tribe of Eritrea on 04/18/08 at 2:19 PM Respond