• TexMexBazooka
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    1 year ago

    Whoa, do you have a source on that? That’s an incredible piece of context

    • TranscendentalEmpire
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      1 year ago

      Here is a decent explanation.

      People forget that from the time Christopher Columbus arrived to when Europeans began expanding past the Appalachia is a span of 300 years. That’s longer than we’ve been in a country.

      American expansion would not have been possible without hundreds of years of what is basically a Continent wide apocalypse. Culture just doesn’t survive that level of sustained trauma unchanged.