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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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  • Wednesday, August 29, 2007 09:14 PM

    flyover52

    It would have been easy enough for them to ask the students to point out all 50 states in the U.S.A., but they did not, even though they knew that many schools still use maps with U.S.A. printed on the first 48 states.

    btw, that's a pretty lame excuse. They didn't say point out only the 48 contiguous states. The question was to point out all the United States of America.

    If students don't know that Alaska and Hawaii are states in the USA, and can't point that out on a map, that's exactly the problem.

    Are you in a flyover state by the way? Or just chose that name to troll the topic?

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