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The author (listed as Rebecca Traister) is incorrect. The question was not in any way a geography question. The beauty princess (not yet a queen if she is Miss TEEN USA) was not asked to show the USA on a map. She was asked her opinion of why her fellow young Americans could not find it. Whether or not she herself could find the USA and not confuse it with South Africa or "the Iraq" is immaterial. It is a problem of US education in general, not the education of one silly girl from South Carolina.
By the way, I happen to know a very beautiful blonde woman from South Carolina. I know her from Mensa, the organization that is restricted to the top 2% of the population in intelligence, so it is hardly true that all pretty blondes from the south are ninnies.
