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(56,177 posts)LooseWilly
(4,477 posts)Of course... time started in America around 1609, right?
NewYorkTaxPayer
(27 posts)It wasn't called America back then...
Tikki
(14,549 posts)Tikki
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Red, black and blue imaginary lines on a map are just that... imaginary, regardless of when they were first imagined.
SpankMe
(2,955 posts)Wikipedia suggests that a guy named Martin Waldseemüller named the continent "America" on his maps starting in 1507.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Waldseem%C3%BCller
So, if we want to pick nits, then I'd say it's fair to say it was referred to as "America" by some back then.
enki23
(7,786 posts)Since we're picking nits about what's named "America," we can be reasonably sure that white babies have *always* been in the minority.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Native American and Hispanic (and Black) births out-numbered white births well into the 19th Century, long after the naming of "America."
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)SCVDem
(5,103 posts)In my multi ethnic apartmends looking at so many brown kids, I think they are lucky.
Here I am trying to be just like them, a beautiful variation of brown.
So much for being white, huh?
I especially like the way the kids get along.
SunSeeker
(51,504 posts)Bodes well for our future.
By the way, you must be in So. Cal. ---it is definitely a lay by the pool day here!
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)95 degrees and hoping we don't make the news.
Fire season ya know.
SunSeeker
(51,504 posts)SCVDem
(5,103 posts)We actually have a large 'majority base' of other than white,
They have the tan I would "die" for.
I am so frickin jealous!
Maraya1969
(22,459 posts)impressed with her arms and my next thought was, "I wonder who sprayed her tan on?"
I am an idiot.
malaise
(268,664 posts)Rec