Now the French have red states and blue states. They ought to have picked some different colors.
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3 comments:
And they even follow the American pattern--the blue states are internationalist, urban (except for Brittany), and have a larger black population (courtesy of the Départements d'Outre-Mer).
From my myopic American perspective, I feel the French lost an opportunity to seize global power from the U.S. to Europe. What are your thoughts?
Mauve and chartreuse sound more like it. -- JM
Why should they pick different colors... red and blue are the colors of their flag too...
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