Re: Things we remember...
Quadibloc
> In article <slrnhf5mmp.kgo....@gatekeeper.vic.com>,
> David DeLaney <d...@vic.com> wrote:
>
> >And every time I read about the history of all this, my willing suspension of
> >disbelief is jolted into fragments by the repeated appearance of the phrase
> >"the powerful butter lobby". 'Say, Senator, that's a nice office you've got
> >there. Wouldn't want anyone to GREASE your secretary's SKIDS, knowwhudimean?'
>
> Oh heck, no, they never threatened bodily harm. Just loss of
> votes.
Also, these colored margarine bans were *state* laws, not Federal
ones. Thus, they stayed around longer in states with a lot of dairy
farmers. Remember that apportionment tends to favor rural areas.
John Savard
Robert A. Woodward
<1da640c7-7cb4-49df...@g22g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
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Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
Apportionment has not favored the rural areas since the mid 60s in
the USA (a US Supreme Court decision resulted in a rather extensive
rearranging of state legislature districts, especially the upper
houses in the 49 states that had them).
--
Robert Woodward <robe...@drizzle.com>
<http://www.drizzle.com/~robertaw>
erilar
<1da640c7-7cb4-49df...@g22g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
> Also, these colored margarine bans were *state* laws, not Federal
> ones. Thus, they stayed around longer in states with a lot of dairy
> farmers. Remember that apportionment tends to favor rural areas.
Wisconsin was one such state 8-)
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