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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 12:00 AM

Miss dumb blond USA?

Our national embarrassment over a South Carolina teenage contestant's world knowledge.
Rebecca Traister

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  • Thursday, August 30, 2007 06:51 AM

    The continental states were the only ones displayed on the most recent survey

    They didn't say point out only the 48 contiguous states. The question was to point out all the United States of America.

    No, it wasn't. The question was (I paraphrase, but I linked to the study in an earlier post) which of these land masses as indicated by a number constitutes the United States of America? Identifying each of the 50 states was not included in the question.

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