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A Linguistic Test: Blue Kennel’s First 12/17/2011 2 Comments

I have been reading a work called From Bible Belt to Sun Belt by Darren Dochuk about how settlement from the western South [Texas and bordering states] in the 1930s and 40s reshaped California evangelicalism and culture.  It inspired me to give my readers my first phonemic test; this particular one measures Southern influence on California speech. Read [...]

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Proposition 14 06/06/2010 1 Comment

I decided to vote for Proposition 14, which makes the general election a runoff between the two highest polling primary candidates even if they are in the same party.  I decided that the effect of the proposition might be to weaken the power of social conservatives in the Republican Party, but to strengthen social conservatives [...]

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