#Cameron Seward

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Steps from the Capitol, Trump allies buy up properties to build MAGA campus | The Washington Post

At first glance, the flurry of real estate sales two blocks east of the U.S. Capitol appeared unremarkable in a city where such sales are common. In the span of a year, a seemingly unrelated gaggle of recently formed companies bought nine properties, all within steps of one another.

But the sales were not coincidental. Unbeknown to most of the sellers, the limited liability companies making the purchases — a shopping spree that added up to $41 million — are connected to a conservative nonprofit led by Mark Meadows, who was Chief of Staff to President Donald Trump. The organization has promoted MAGA stars like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.).

The Conservative Partnership Institute, as the nonprofit is known, now controls four commercial properties along a single Pennsylvania Avenue block, three adjoining rowhouses around the corner, and a garage and carriage house in the rear alley. CPI’s aim, as expressed in its annual report, is to transform the swath of prime real estate into a campus it calls “Patriots’ Row.”

The acquisitions strike some Capitol Hill regulars as puzzling, considering that Republicans have long made a sport of denigrating Washington as a dysfunctional “swamp,” the latest evidence being a successful GOP-led effort to block local D.C. legislation to revise the city’s criminal code.

“So you don’t respect how we administer our city and then you secretly buy up chunks of it?” said Tim Krepp, a Capitol Hill resident who works as a tour guide and has written about the neighborhood’s history. “If it’s such a hellhole, go to Virginia.”

Reached on his cellphone, Edward Corrigan, CPI’s president, whose name appears on public documents related to the sales, had no immediate comment on the purchases, which were first reported by Grid News and confirmed by The Washington Post. “I’ll get back to you,” Corrigan said. He did not respond to follow-up messages.

Former senator Jim DeMint, CPI’s founder, and Meadows, a senior partner at the organization, did not respond to emails seeking comment. Cameron Seward, CPI’s general counsel and director of operations, whose name appears on incorporation documents related to the companies making the purchases, did not respond to a text or an email.

As Congress’s neighbors, denizens of the Capitol Hill neighborhood are accustomed to existing in close quarters with all varieties of official Washington. Walk the neighborhood and you might catch a glimpse of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) or former Trump strategist Stephen K. Bannon, among those who own homes near the Capitol. The Republican and Democratic national committees both have offices in the neighborhood.

But it’s rare, if not unprecedented, for a nonprofit to purchase as many properties in such proximity and in so short a period of time as CPI has assembled through its related companies, a roster with names like Clear Plains Holdings, Brunswick Partners, Houston Group, Newpoint and Pennsylvania Avenue Holdings. The companies list Seward as an officer on corporate filings, as well as CPI’s Independence Avenue headquarters as their principal address.

Now, in what may be an only-in-Washington vista, a single Pennsylvania Avenue block is occupied by Public Citizen, the left-leaning consumer advocacy group, the Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank, and CPI, which bought four properties through its affiliates.

In addition to the nine D.C. parcels CPI’s network has bought since January 2022, another affiliated company, Federal Investors, paid $7.2 million for a sprawling 11-bedroom retreat on the Eastern Shore. In 2020, CPI, under its own name, also spent $1.5 million for a rowhouse next to its headquarters, which it leases, a few blocks from the Capitol.

DeMint, a former Republican congressman from South Carolina, started CPI in 2017, shortly after he was ousted as Heritage’s leader amid criticism that the think tank had become too political under his direction. Meadows joined in 2021, after working as Trump’s Chief of Staff. He was by Trump’s side during the administration’s final calamitous days, before and after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and as the President’s allies were seeking to overturn election results.

On its 2021 tax returns, CPI reported $45 million in revenue, most of it generated through contributions and grants, and paid DeMint and Meadows compensation packages of $542,000 and $559,000, respectively. Its current offices, a three-story townhouse at the corner of Third Street and Independence Avenue SE, is a hub of GOP activity. During the chaotic lead-up to Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s election as House Speaker, dissident Republican lawmakers were observed congregating at CPI.

CPI also provides grants to a cluster of nonprofits headed by Trump allies. Former Trump adviser Stephen Miller, for example, leads America First Legal, which received $1.3 million from CPI in 2021 and bills itself as a check on “lawless executive actions and the Radical Left.”

Cleta Mitchell, an attorney who was on the call Trump made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger seeking to reverse votes in the 2020 election, runs what the organization bills as its “Election Integrity Network,” which has cast doubt on the validity of President Biden’s 2020 victory.

“The election was rigged,” EIN tweeted last July. “Trump won.”

CLOSE TO THE CAPITOL

At an introductory meeting in December, recalled Gerald Sroufe, an advisory neighborhood commissioner on Capitol Hill, a CPI representative said the group planned to move its headquarters to a three-story building it had bought on Pennsylvania Avenue, next to Heritage’s office. Until the pandemic forced it to close, the Capitol Lounge had occupied the 130-year-old building. The bar had served a nightly bipartisan swarm of congressional staffers and lobbyists for more than two decades.

The CPI official, Sroufe said, indicated that the group planned to use the new Pennsylvania Avenue properties to “expand” its offices and “provide new retail.” But the official made no mention of Patriots’ Row, Sroufe said, or the three rowhouses the group’s affiliates had bought around the corner on Third Street SE. All of the properties are in the neighborhood’s historic district, which protects them from being altered without city review.

“This is much grander than what we were talking about,” Sroufe said after learning from a reporter about the other purchases. “On the Hill, people are always talking about how wonderful it is to be close to the Capitol and Congress. It’s kind of like a curse.”

As in many commercial corridors hit hard by the pandemic, businesses along Pennsylvania Avenue have struggled over the past couple of years. Tony Tomelden, executive director of the Capitol Hill Association of Merchants and Professionals, said CPI could energize a strip pocked with vacant storefronts.

“I welcome any business because the only thing opening right now are marijuana shops,” said Tomelden, an H Street NE bar owner who helped open the Capitol Lounge in 1996 and, as it happens, instituted a rule that patrons could not talk politics while imbibing. “If they’re going to pay a lot of money and raise property values, I’m all for it. I don’t care about anybody’s politics as long as they pay their tab.”

In an overwhelmingly Democratic city, finding those who are less sanguine about CPI’s growing footprint is not exactly difficult.

Yet politics is only part of the issue, as far as Krepp is concerned. CPI’s purchases, he said, threaten the area’s neighborhood vibe, as would be the case if any group, no matter its ideological leaning, bought as many properties. “I don’t want to create another downtown on Capitol Hill,” he said. “There’s a glut of available office space downtown. You don’t have to buy up neighborhoods.”

Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Md.), a regular commuter to the Capitol from his home in Montgomery County, sees CPI’s acquisitions in terms more political than geographic.

“It just seems like a massive real estate coming-out party for the extreme right wing of the Republican Party,” Raskin said. “This is a very explicit and well-financed statement of intent. They set out to take over the Republican Party and they’re very close to clenching the power.”

Instead of Patriots’ Row, Raskin suggested an alternative name: Seditionist Square.

“Maybe Marjorie Taylor Greene can be their advisory neighborhood commissioner,” he said.

A ‘PERMANENT BULWARK’ IN D.C.

On its 2021 tax return, CPI said its mission is to be a “platform” for the “conservative movement,” and to provide “public policy” training for “government and nonprofit staffers” and meeting space for gatherings and policy debates.

Although not required to identify donors, CPI reported seven contributions in excess of $1 million, including one of more than $25 million. Trump’s Save America political action committee gave $1 million in 2021, according to campaign finance records. Billionaire Richard Uihlein, a major Republican donor, gave $1.25 million a couple of years ago through his foundation, records show.

A CPI-related entity, the Conservative Partnership Center, rented space to two political action committees as of early January, the House Freedom Fund and Senate Conservative Fund, according to campaign finance records. CPI also received $4,000 from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who has recorded his “Firebrand” podcast at the group’s studio, as has the host of the “Gosar Minute,” Rep. Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.), according to the group’s annual report. Greene paid CPI $437.73 for “catering for political meetings” in 2021, the records show.

“No one stood up to the Left as courageously as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene,” CPI declared in its 2021 annual report, hailing her as a “hero” who “endured sexist fury that always lurks just beneath the progressive surface.” The report described Boebert as a “gun rights advocate” who “wants to protect our environment more than anyone else.”

It was in CPI’s 2022 annual report that the group briefly referred to its expansion plans, writing that it has strengthened “its ability to serve the movement by beginning renovations to Patriots’ Row on Pennsylvania Avenue.”

“In 2022, the Left tried to drag America further into a dark future of totalitarianism, chaotic elections and cultural decay,” the report asserts in an introduction from DeMint and Meadows. “The Washington establishment, per usual, did nothing to stop them. But neither the Left nor the establishment could stop the culture and community we’re building here at the Conservative Partnership Institute.”

“With our expanded presence in D.C.,” they add, “we’re launching CPI academy — a formal program of training for congressional staff and current and future members of the movement.”

“Even if we can’t change Washington, we can create a permanent bulwark against its worst tendencies.”

A SPATE OF SALES

CPI began its expansion in 2020, purchasing the rowhouse next door to its headquarters and christening it “The Rydin House” for Mike Rydin, a construction magnate and prominent conservative donor. When Federal Investors bought the Eastern Shore property, the group named it “Camp Rydin.”

On Capitol Hill, several property owners who sold their buildings to CPI-linked companies were surprised to learn that the buyers were connected to a group led by Meadows and DeMint.

“I did not know,” said Jacqueline Lewis, who sold a townhouse on Third Street SE to 116 Holdings for $5.1 million in July. The company’s officer, according to its corporate filing, is Seward, and the principal address it lists is the same as CPI’s headquarters. A trust document related to the transaction is signed by Corrigan, CPI’s president.

Brunswick Partners, which lists CPI and Seward as contacts on its corporate filing, bought the neighboring rowhouse for $1.8 million in January, according to property records. Brian Wise, the seller, said he did not know of the company’s CPI connection. An attorney who approached him and his wife, he said, “asked if we were willing to sell and we agreed on a price. It was a business sale.”

Keith and Amanda Catanzano also were unaware of CPI when they sold a garage in the alley behind Third Street SE to Newpoint for $1 million in June. Newpoint lists Seward as an officer and the same mailing address as CPI. “We had no idea,” said a woman who answered the phone at a number listed for the Catanzanos before hanging up.

Eric Kassoff, who sold the former site of the Capitol Lounge to Clear Plains, said he knew of the company’s CPI ties before the $11.3 million deal was finalized in January. He also sold the group a carriage house behind the building for $400,000.

Kassoff said he did not want to lease the space to a fast-food restaurant or a convenience store. He said CPI’s political leanings were not a factor in his decision to sell to the organization.

“Why would I have any issue selling my property to proud Americans?” asked Kassoff, who described himself as an independent. “We need to get past the labeling and demonizing and talk to each other, and that’s true in politics as well as commerce. If we were all to take that position we wouldn’t have much of a country left, would we?”

Although the Capitol Lounge closed more than two years ago, vestiges of its past remain on the building’s exterior, including a rendering of Benjamin Franklin beneath a quote concocted by the bar’s founder, Joe Englert: “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”

James Silk, the bar’s former owner, said he left behind memorabilia when he vacated the building that could be suitable for the new owner: Richard M. Nixon campaign posters still hanging on the walls of what the owners cheekily dubbed the Nixon Room (located across from the Kennedy Room).

“Nixon is finally with his people,” Silk said. He laughed and added: “Nixon was a Republican, right?”

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theres nuance missing here i think...

Lincoln’s Dream Team & Reality Team

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Last Edited: 15 September 2024

Polycules that are in the running:

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Fluttershy

Stephen King's It

Richie Tozier, Eddie Kaspbrak, Beverly Marsh, Bill Denbrough, Ben Hanscom, Stan Uris, Mike Hanlon, Kay McCall, Audra Phillips and Patty Blum

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Doki Doki Precure

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A3!

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Witch's Heart

Claire Elford, Noel Levine, Ashe Bradley, Wilardo Adler and Sirius Gibson

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The Owl House

Luz Noceda, Amity Blight, Willow Park, Hunter, and Gus Porter

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The Breakfast Club

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Winx Club

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Resident Evil

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Vanitas, Noe Archiviste, Dominique de Sade and Jeanne

Scooby Doo

Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Shaggy Rogers, Velma Dinkley, Hot Dog Water, and Crystal.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Darla, Angel(us), Drusilla, and Spike/William

The Legend of Zelda

Revali, Zelda, Link, Mipha, Sidon, Yona, Paya and Tauro

The Magicians

Fen, Eliot Waugh, Margo Hanson, Josh Hoberman, Quentin Coldwater, and Arielle

Haikyū!!

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Genshin Impact

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Heaven Official's Blessing

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Torchwood

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Spiderman

Peter Parker, Harry Osborn, Mary-Jane Watson, Gwen Stacy, Liz Allan, Felicia Hardy, and Johnny Storm

Beastars

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Lupin III, Goemon Ishikawa XIII, Daisuke Jigen, and Fujiko Mine

Demon Slayer

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Omori

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Cookie Run

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Zero Escape

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Roswell New Mexico

Nora Truman, Louise Truman, Theo, Tripp Manes and Roy Bronson

Max Evans, Isobel Evans, Michael Guerin, Liz Ortecho, Kyle Valenti, Maria DeLuca, Alex Manes, Jenna "Cam" Cameron, Heath, Dallas Haines, Greg Manes and Anatsa

The Raven Cycle

Blue Sargent, Richard Gansey, Ronan Lynch, Adam Parrish, Noah Czerny, and Henry Cheng

Warcraft

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My School President

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Bad Buddy

Pat, Pran, Korn, and Wai

Guardian Tales

Knight, Elvira, Arabelle, Beth, Priscilla, Yuze, Bianca, Loraine, Eva, and Camilla

Word of Honor/Faraway Wanders

Wen Kexing, Zhou Zishu, Han Ying, Jing Beiyuan, and Wuxi

The New Teen Titans

Dick Grayson, Koriand'r, Victor Stone, Rachel Roth, Joseph Wilson, Donna Troy, and Garfield Logan

Baldur's Gate 3

Astarion, Gale, Lae'zel, Karlach, Shadowheart, Wyll, and Durge

Kagerou Project

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NU Carnival

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Project Sekai

Kanade Yoisaki, Mafuyu Asahina, Mizuki Akiyama, and Ena Shinonome

Riverdale

Archie Andrews, Jughead Jones, Betty Cooper, and Veronica Lodge

Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu

Zane Julien, Kai Smith, Jay Walker and Cole

Mysterious Lotus Casebook

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Trigun

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Sandburg's Lincoln - NBC - September 6, 1974 - April 14, 1976

Historical Drama (6 episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Hal Holbrook as Abraham Lincoln

Sada Thompson as Mary Todd Lincoln

Michael Cristofer as John Nicolay

James Carrol Jordan as Robert Todd Lincoln

John Levin as Thomas "Tad" Lincoln

Norman Burton as General Ulysses S. Grant

Richard Dysart as Judge David Davis

John Randolph as Simon Cameron

Bert Freed as Edwin Cameron

Michael-James Wixted as "Willie" Lincoln

Robert Foxworth as Major John T. Stuart

Roy Poole as Salmon P. Chase

Elizabeth Ashley as Kate Chase Sprague

Ed Flanders as General George B. McClellan 

Catherine Burns as Mary Owens

Beulah Bondi as Sarah Bush

Severn Darden as Gideon Welles

John Beal as Senator Fogelson

Lloyd Nolan and Whit Bissell as William H. Seward

[snazzycyborg]

Entirely on board for all of these, ESPECIALLY Dracula. Has there ever even been a good screen adaptation of Dracula??

Cameron definitely would be our good friend Jonathan Harker, he’s already shown he can play a pathetic simp PERFECTLY, and I think Ali would be a great Seward tbh

Ruby ABSOLUTELY as our bisexual icon Mina Harker née Murray, and totally on board for Keanu Reeves as Van Helsing

Yes this is a good idea, I love it

Things I want more than Lockwood & Co. season 2:

1. None. I will simply die if someone doesn’t make a second season, Jonathan Stroud deserves it, Joe Cornish deserves it, Cameron, Ruby, and Ali deserve it. Netflix is disgraceful

2. Ruby Stokes as a Doctor Who companion

[aquakris]

some stans seriously crack me up- they’re saying that elizabeth seward & gray are together bc there’s a blonde in the background of ethan’s insta story (do they not realize cameron’s roommate is blonde??) & then g posted a pic of pumpkin’s on his snap and so did elizabeth but the pumpkins don’t even LOOK ALIKE- if she is w/ them then why does everyone have to make a big deal😫 like this is why they won’t show relationships (& FRIENDSHIPS) w/ girls!! everyone gets butthurt if it isn’t ole girl!!

tf did I wake up to?💀

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@thecorteztwins sent: I request every lady's individual reaction to Malcolm asking if they're his mommy no meme but welp guess I’m doing this (gonna be under cut coz length)

Jaine (aka Angelkiller) 

🚬 – “Kid, I only got one kid, and she’s nothin’ like you.” 

April

🐢 -- “I don’t think I am your mother, sweetie. Do you need help to find her?” 

JM/Aurora

✨ -- “Non.” 

BellaDonna

🗡️ -- “Not likely. I never had a kid.”

Bleez

🏮 -- “Pshah. You don’t even have wings.” 

Elsa Bloodstone

⚔️ – “I don’t have kids, and I don’t ever want to have any. Run along, kid. It’s not me.” 

Betty Brant

📰 -- “Uuuuuuh. No?” 

Crush

🌳 -- “Wrong skin color, kiddo.” 

Emma Frost

💎 -- “How did anyone willingly procreate with your father...” Heavy sigh. 

Angelica Jones

🔥 -- “Uuuuh, hard pass.” 

Gali

🍴 -- “You... uh... don’t look like a cosmic entity to me.” 

Elisa Cameron - Ghost

👻 -- “I’m a ghost, kid. I can’t be your mom.” 

Cassie Hack

🔪 -- “I’m sure that your mom is lovely, but I have enough on my plate already.” 

Hepzibah

🐈 -- “Sweet you are, kitling, but no earth kid is mine.” 

Naomi Kale

☠ -- “I have two sons and a daughter, and none of them look like ya, sorry.” 

Amara (Magma) 

🌋 -- “You... ah... you’re kidding, right?” 

Sarah (Marrow) 

💪 -- “Wanna be a morlock, kid?” 

Megan (Mindwitch) 

👜 -- “Even if I know time-travel is possible, I very much doubt that I would... uhm. Have a kid with your dad, kid.” 

Rachel (Prestige)

🐦 -- “I would never, ever, do anything with your dad, kid.” 

Rogue

☁ -- “No. Never.” 

Sage

💻 -- “I have to admit, I did not see this coming.” 

Satana

🦋 -- “Believe me, kid, you don’t want a demon to be your parent.” 

Mary Seward

🍷 -- “Come find me in a few years, and I will gladly make you one of my children.” 

Spiral

🌀 -- “Your father is deluded if he thinks he could be with me.” 

Rahne (Wolfsbane) 

🐺 -- “No, dear boy. I have a son, but he’s not among us anymore...” 

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Why Did The Republicans Win The 1860 Presidential Election

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Why Did The Republicans Win The 1860 Presidential Election

Q: Why Did The Republican Party Choose Lincoln As Its Candidate

The American Presidential Election of 1860

A: Republican leaders met in Chicago in May 1860 to choose a presidential nominee. Attention focused above all on Senator William H Seward, the former governor of New York, who was widely expected to carry the day. But his reputation for radicalism, recently heightened by a speech depicting the struggle between slave and free societies as an irrepressible conflict, put doubts in the minds of Republican managers. Could he win the support of essential conservative voters in those states of the lower North who had previously blocked the partys route to power?

Sewards supporters took comfort from the handicaps under which most of his rivals laboured. Edward Bates of Missouri was too conservative, Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania too corrupt, Supreme Court justice John McLean too old, Salmon P Chase of Ohio too radical. But Seward had not reckoned on the dark horse, Abraham Lincoln.

Lincolns seven open-air debates with Stephen Douglas across Illinois in 1858, in pursuit of election to the United States senate, had won him national attention

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Osawatomie John Brown And The Raid On Harpers Ferry

When the abolitionist John Brown arrived in Kansas Territory in 1855, he joined a growing band of settlers from the North who hoped to keep slavery and slaveholders out. Yet unlike most antislavery partisans, who wielded words, petitions, and moral suasion to attack the Souths peculiar institution, Brown arrived with weapons and a willingness to use violence to keep Kansas free. Before Browns appearance on the scene, proslavery settlers and neighboring Missourians made successful use of intimidation and fraud to win territorial elections.

For the next four years, Brown worked to make the territory bleed with deadly attacks on proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek and in clashes with armed militiamen and their deputies at the battles of Black Jack and Osawatomie. He left the territory in early 1859, intending to take his war against slavery into Virginia, where he planned to incite a slave rebellion in the Appalachian Mountains.

Several of Browns comrades in his raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry had ridden with him in Kansas, and it was under the guise of carrying out additional violence in Kansas that Brown raised funds from New Englanders for the raid. While the raid itself turned out to be an unmitigated disaster, Browns foray into Virginia had far-reaching political implications for the entire nation already in the midst of the 1860 presidential campaign.

Q: What Part Did The Election Outcome Play In The Coming Of Civil War

A: War followed upon southern secession because Lincoln, supported by a majority of northerners, refused to concede that any of his fellow countrymen had a constitutional right of withdrawal from a perpetual Union, and certainly not in response to a democratic election fairly contested and legitimately won. When in early April 1861 Lincoln sent an unarmed vessel to resupply a federal fort in Charleston harbour, the Confederate batteries opened fire. As Lincoln later put it: Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish.

The war, then, was about the survival of the nation and, in its early stages at least, not about the survival or death of slavery. But the election of 1860 revealed the huge fissure between North and South over their incompatible understandings of the peculiar institutions future in the republic. That fissure had grown more profound since the annexation of Texas and the Mexican cession had raised fundamental questions about the status of slavery in the new acquisitions. The political contention reached its climax in the election of 1860.

Whatever the later claims of Confederates and their modern successors, the crisis of the Union of 186165 was not about states rights in the abstract. It was about the apparent threat to the power of the slave states to regulate their domestic institutions.

What if Abraham Lincoln hadnt been assassinated?

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On This Day The Republican Party Names Its First Candidates

On July 6, 1854, disgruntled voters in a new political party named its first candidates to contest the Democrats over the issue of slavery. Within six and one-half years, the newly christened Republican Party would control the White House and Congress as the Civil War began.

For a brief time in the decade before the Civil War, the Democratic Party of Andrew Jackson and his descendants enjoyed a period of one-party rule. The Democrats had battled the Whigs for power since 1836 and lost the presidency in 1848 to the Whig candidate, Zachary Taylor. After Taylor died in office in 1850, it took only a few short years for the Whig Party to collapse dramatically.

There are at least three dates recognized in the formation of the Republican Party in 1854, built from the ruins of the Whigs. The first is February 24, 1854, when a small group met in Ripon, Wisconsin, to discuss its opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The group called themselves Republicans in reference to Thomas Jeffersons Republican faction in the American republics early days. Another meeting was held on March 20, 1854, also in Ripon, where 53 people formally recognized the movement within Wisconsin.

On July 6, 1854, a much-bigger meeting in Jackson, Michigan was attended by about 10,000 people and is considered by many as the official start of the organized Republican Party. By the end of the gathering, the Republicans had compiled a full slate of candidates to run in Michigans elections.

The 1858 Midterm Election

There is always a lull after a tempest, and so the political world has subsided into an unwonted calm since the election, commented a reporter for The New York Times. The Republicans are naturally . . . exultant over their sweeping victories. Such a commentary might apply to any number of elections, but this reporter described the outcome of a particularly historic electionthe midterm election of 1858. The Republican success that year was especially remarkable because the Republican Party was only four years old.

Almost by spontaneous combustion, the Republican Party burst forth in 1854 in response to the controversial Kansas-Nebraska Act. For decades, Americas political battles had been fought between the Democrats and the Whigs. By the early 1850s, however, the issue of slavery had splintered the Whigs into warring factions and divided Democrats between north and south. When Democratic senator Stephen Douglas pushed his Kansas-Nebraska bill to passage, including its proposal to settle the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty, the uproar among northern abolitionists and anti-slavery activists was too fierce to be contained by the ailing Whig Party. As one person commented, The Whigs were simply not angry enough.

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Who Was Our 19th President

As the 19th President of the United States , Rutherford B. Hayes oversaw the end of Reconstruction, began the efforts that led to civil service reform, and attempted to reconcile the divisions left over from the Civil War. Beneficiary of the most fiercely disputed election in American history, Rutherford B.

Why Did Lincoln Think Secession Was Unconstitutional

He gave several reasons, among them his belief that secession was unlawful, the fact that states were physically unable to separate, his fears that secession would cause the weakened government to descend into anarchy, and his steadfast conviction that all Americans should be friends towards one another, rather than

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The Rival Candidates In 1860

In the 1860 election, the Democratic Party split into two factions. The northern Democrats nominated Lincolns perennial rival, Senator Stephen A. Douglas. The southern Democrats nominated John C. Breckenridge, the incumbent vice president, a pro-enslavement man from Kentucky.

Those who felt they could support neither party, mainly disaffected former Whigs and members of the Know-Nothing Party, formed the Constitutional Union Party and nominated John Bell of Tennessee.

Who Were The Candidates In The United States Presidential Election Of 1860

The Election of 1860 & the Road to Disunion: Crash Course US History #18

Abraham Lincoln of Illinois was the candidate of the generally antislavery Republican Party. The Democratic Party split in two. Sen. Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, the champion of popular sovereignty policy, was the Northern Democrats candidate, and Vice Pres. John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky was the candidate of the Southern Democrats, whose campaign was based on the demand for federal legislation and intervention to protect slaveholding. Sen. John Bell of Tennessee was the candidate of the new Constitutional Union Party, the political home for former Whigs and other moderates who rallied to support the Union and the Constitution without regard to slavery.

United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election held on November 6, 1860, in which RepublicanAbraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, DemocratStephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. The electoral split between Northern and Southern Democrats was emblematic of the severe sectional split, particularly over slavery, and in the months following Lincolns election seven Southern states, led by South Carolina on December 20, 1860, seceded, setting the stage for the American Civil War .

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Constitutional Union Party Nomination

Former SenatorWilliam C. Rives from Virginia

The Constitutional Union Party was formed by remnants of both the defunct Know Nothing and Whig Parties who were unwilling to join either the Republicans or the Democrats. The new party’s members hoped to stave off Southern secession by avoiding the slavery issue. They met in the Eastside District Courthouse of Baltimore and nominated John Bell from Tennessee for president over GovernorSam Houston of Texas on the second ballot. Edward Everett was nominated for vice-president at the convention on May 9, 1860, one week before Lincoln.

John Bell was a former Whig who had opposed the KansasNebraska Act and the Lecompton Constitution. Edward Everett had been president of Harvard University and Secretary of State in the Millard Fillmore administration. The party platform advocated compromise to save the Union with the slogan “The Union as it is, and the Constitution as it is.”

What Were The Key Issues In The Election Of 1800

1800 Presidential Election

Central issues included opposition to the tax imposed by Congress to pay for the mobilization of the new army and the navy in the Quasi-War against France in 1798, and the Alien and Sedition acts, by which Federalists were trying to stifle dissent, especially by Republican newspaper editors.

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Q: Who Were The Republicans

A: Like all political parties, the new Republican organisation was a coalition. Its constituent elements emerged from the fractured politics of the mid-1850s that created a political vacuum by destroying the Whig party and weakening their rivals, the Democrats. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the work of US senator Stephen A Douglas, an Illinois Democrat, opened up to slave-holding settlers a vast trans-Mississippi region previously deemed the preserve of free labour. The immediate explosion of anger in the North prompted state-level anti-Nebraska coalitions of disaffected Democrats, antislavery Whigs, independent free-soilers, and out-and-out abolitionists. At the same time an influx of immigrants, many of them Catholic, prompted a native-born backlash that further strained political loyalties.

The emergent Republican Partys opposition to the extension of slavery provided the policy glue that bound its elements together: radical emancipationists driven by moral purpose, racists determined to found lily-white western settlements, social progressives who deemed the South archaic and stagnant, and opponents of the political influence of southern planters the so-called Slave Power that had allegedly hijacked the federal government.

From Lincoln to Trump: a brief history of the US Republican Party

How Did Abraham Lincolns Election Caused The Civil War

A former Whig, Lincoln ran on a political platform opposed to the expansion of slavery in the territories. His election served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the Civil War. In 1865, Lincoln was instrumental in the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, which made slavery unconstitutional.

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National Republican Platform Adopted By The National Republican Convention Held In Chicago May 17 1860 Chicago Press And Tribune Office Chicago Illinois 1860 Library Of Congress Rare Book And Special Collections Division Alfred Whital Stern Collection Of Lincolniana Https: //googl/lcbfpa

Resolved, that we, the delegated representatives of the Republican electors of the United States in Convention assembled, in discharge of the duty we owe to our constituents and our country, unite in the following declarations:

That the history of the nation during the last four years, has fully established the propriety and necessity of the organization and perpetuation of the Republican party, and that the causes which called it into existence are permanent in their nature, and now, more than ever before, demand its peaceful and constitutional triumph.

That the maintenance of the principles promulgated in the Declaration of Independence and embodied in the Federal Constitution, That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, is essential to the preservation of our Republican institutions; and that the Federal Constitution, the Rights of the States, and the Union of the States must and shall be preserved.

. . .

Republican Platform Of 1860. A reprint of the original broadside containing the Republican Platform of 1860, adopted by the National Republican Convention held in Chicago, 1860. Library of Congress, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbpe.0180010b.

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Abraham Lincoln’s Wartime Run

Lincoln and Johnson’s 1864 campaign banner.

When Lincoln first ran for president in 1860, it was his Republican Party that had a stronghold in the north, and the Democratic Party that had found popularity in the south. When 11 southern states seceded to join the Confederacy, the Republican Party became the Unions dominant political party. Even so, for the 1864 election, the Republican Party decided to join forces with some Democrats to form the National Union Party.

Despite concerns about Lincolns electability, the National Union backed him as its presidential candidate. Yet notably, Lincoln ditched his current Republican vice president to run with Andrew Johnson, a Democrat who had previously supported slavery, in an attempt to balance the ticket.

Q: Why Did The Democratic Party Split

The Election of 1860 Explained

A: Enthusiastic expansionists, the Democrats as a national party had to fashion a policy for the western territories that would minister to the incompatible ambitions of free-soil and pro-slavery settlers. For a time Stephen Douglass formula of popular sovereignty leaving the settlers themselves to resolve the issue by a local vote kept northern and southern Democrats happy. But the doctrine was inherently ambiguous: as a unifying principle it could not survive the civil war between pro-slavery and free-soil settlers in bleeding Kansas or President Buchanans feeble yielding to supporters of a pro-slavery constitution there. Douglass political survival in Illinois and the wider North forced him to turn against the national administration.

Even so, as the countrys leading Democrat he expected to win his partys presidential nomination in 1860. By then, however, influential southerners had jettisoned popular sovereignty and, emboldened by the Supreme Courts landmark decision in the Dred Scott case , had begun to call for federal legal protection of slavery in the territories. The partys fraught national conventions saw it split over the issue of a federal slave code, leaving Douglas to fight the election as the candidate of the regular Democrats, and the Kentucky slave-owner, John C Breckinridge, to stand as the representative of southern radicals who stood ready to countenance quitting the Union if they did not get their way.

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Who Caused The Civil War

What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America? A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery. In fact, it was the economics of slavery and political control of that system that was central to the conflict. A key issue was states rights.

Background To The Election Of 1860

The central issue of the presidential election of 1860 was destined to be enslavement. Battles over the spread of enslavement to new territories and states had gripped the United States since the late 1840s, when the United States obtained vast tracts of land following the Mexican War.

In the 1850s the enslavement issue became extremely heated. The passage of the Fugitive Slave act as part of the Compromise of 1850 inflamed northerners. And the 1852 publication of an extraordinarily popular novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, brought the political debates over enslavement into American living rooms.

And the passage of the of the;Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854;became a turning point in Lincoln’s life.

Following the passage of the controversial legislation,;Abraham Lincoln, who had essentially given up on politics after one unhappy term in Congress in the late 1840s, felt compelled to return to the political arena. In his home state of Illinois, Lincoln began speaking out against the Kansas-Nebraska Act and particularly its author, Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois.

When Douglas ran for reelection in 1858, Lincoln opposed him in Illinois. Douglas won that election. But the seven Lincoln-Douglas Debates they held across Illinois were mentioned in newspapers around the country, raising Lincolns political profile.

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"With the notable exception of sympathy with disunion, the President's advisers represented...all shades of political sentiment. Four members of the Cabinet, Seward, H Chase, Cameron and Bates, had been candidates for the Presidential nomination at the Republican convention, and for the first two the failure, to secure it had been a rankling disappointment. [Margaret Leech, REVEILLE IN WASHINGTON, 48-9]

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5 Unmissable Highlights From Consensus: Distributed 2020

Consensus: Distributed, CoinDesk’s virtual version of their annual crypto conference, is done and dusted, but the best bits have just been made available to a housebound audience. Highlights from the May 11-15 event have started appearing on CoinDesk TV, including interviews and fireside chats from some of the industry’s leading lights and brightest minds.  With the blockchain brain trust piping in from various locations and waxing lyrical about their chosen topics, we’ve curated five contributions you don’t want to miss. Mass Adoption Asia Edition with MiL.k and Yanolja With the global financial system under increased strain, are we any closer to realizing crypto’s mainstream potential? This was the topic up for discussion on May 12, when figures from the Asian blockchain scene jumped on a call with hosts Oihyun Kim of CoinDesk Korea and Jaewon Park from crypto disclosure platform Xangle. Among the interviewees was Samuel Yun, head of international business at MiL.k, a blockchain-based reward integration platform connecting lifestyle, travel and leisure services. “MiL.k is not about payment, but rather rewards and on-platform marketing,” Yun told the hosts. “We’ve been developing the project for almost two years, and we are excited to offer the project as a service. Our vision as a company is to bridge the technology to everyday lives.  “By using the platform, people can combine many different reward points from not only travel-specialized services but also lifestyle services that they use in their daily lives. Being able to combine different reward points means increased utility for users. With the Milk Coin (MLK), users can buy reward points with discounts on the MiL.k platform and even bring it out to crypto exchanges to cash it.” With so many rewards and loyalty programs in existence, MiL.k seeks to maximize benefits from vendors and users by increasing the utility of rewards generated. As Yun explains in the video, “Users get to earn many types of rewards but there are restrictions like ‘you should accumulate more than a certain point to actually use them as cash, or an expiration date is coming before your rewards have value.’ So for users, even though it’s framed as another type of asset, the utility of reward points have been quite low.  “To solve these current issues, the MiL.k platform allows you to combine previously-scattered reward points, which means the utility of your rewards can get much higher. It also offers you discounts when you buy reward points with Milk Coin.” A fascinating proposition – and given MiL.k’s partnership with South Korean travel firm Yanolja, plus a host of others in multiple sectors, MiL.k is one to watch. The Winklevoss Twins The Winklevoss Twins are A-listers in the crypto world, and hosts Leigh Cuen and Zack Seward clearly enjoyed probing the billionaire brothers’ brains during CoinDesk: Distributed.  During the interview, the Gemini exchange founders discussed the recent bitcoin halving, with Tyler noting, “When the first halving happened, I think we didn’t even know it was happening, it was so long ago. The second one was a big deal. Every four years, things improve by an order of magnitude, whether it’s price, the human capital coming into the space, the projects… So I expect these four years to be the best four years yet.” “I think the actual event tends to be a non-event, other than the celebration and the milestone” added Cameron. “And that’s really exciting. But I think a lot of the reduced sell pressure and the actual economics start to kick in and be felt generally a little after.  “Obviously this halvening has Covid in the backdrop which changes everything, and in many ways the stage for a store of value like bitcoin has been set. I think a lot of the stuff we’ve talked about in terms of bitcoin being digital gold, a safe haven and all that stuff, the talking points have been the same since we got into bitcoin about eight years ago with the first halving. But the dynamics of fiat regimes has drastically changed.” As well as the halving, the twins discuss what it took to convince banks to invest in blockchain with Cameron noting that crypto is “bringing commercial privacy to the blockchain.” It’s a fascinating interview, so be sure to check it out. Telegram’s TON on the Launchpad Telegram’s decision to drop its appeal against a U.S. Federal Court’s injunction forbidding its Gram distribution sent shockwaves through the cryptosphere. Of course, CoinDesk’s video from May 12 precedes that news, but the discussion between reporter Anna Baydakova and fund manager Yakov Barinsky and attorney Philip Moustakis is interesting all the same, with the trio wondering “Are global token sales possible after TON?” Providing you haven’t had your fill of impassioned conversations concerning Telegram’s tussle with the S.E.C., this one’s well worth a watch. Saifedean Ammous on Modern Banking & Crypto Twitter Economist Saifedean Ammous, author of best-selling book The Bitcoin Standard, sat down for a conversation with Nolan Bauerle and Bailey Reutzel that touched on many topics including Crypto Twitter – the virtual space where debates rage, ideas flourish and dissent foments.  Ammous also discussed the nature of the modern, debt-based financial system and posited that bitcoin is the future. “Why does this monetary system require central banks to keep stepping in all the time? That’s not normal, that’s not healthy. Bitcoin seems to be growing and offering us a completely different alternative way of running this monetary system.  “At a time when central banks are just finding more ways – or having to inject liquidity into their systems in order to prevent a catastrophe, and hope that they won’t need to do something like this next time, Bitcoin’s method of approaching this is just, stick to its original schedule that was specified before 2009. And we’ve seen over the last 12 years, many people have tried to change that schedule but it continues to stay as it is.” Bitcoin in the Middle East with Meldem Demirors & Nimrod Lehavi The number of blockchain projects in the Middle East is continually growing, with various governments leveraging the tech to streamline public services and bolster central banking security. On May 11, CoinShares founder Meltem Demirors and Simplex CEO Nimrod Lehavi  joined hosts Leigh Cuen and Zack Seward to discuss developments in this exciting emerging market, including in Israel, Turkey and Lebanon. They also discussed the effect of Covid-19 on crypto interest and acquisition. A conversation well worth listening to, particularly if you’re living in the Middle East or developing a project that will be used in the region.   from Cryptocracken Tumblr https://ift.tt/2M1275d via IFTTT

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Zeitgeist of 2K19

Sebagai penutup dekade 2000-belasan, tahun 2019 dibuka dengan “menjemput rezeki di awal 2019”. IYKWIM.

Lagu lama tentang jangan mengucapkan selamat natal kembali booming tahun ini. Di Zeitgeist 2018 lalu gue bilang masalah ini tidak begitu beken, sekarang naik lagi. Memori masyarakat memang pendek. Pak Jokowi bilang untuk melawan intoleransi adalah dengan membanjiri sosmed dengan postingan tentang kerukunan. Bukan ide yang baru, tapi gesture yang bagus. Tinggal eksekusinya saja.

Disamping hal baru tapi lama diatas, ada pula hal yang benar-benar baru tahun ini. Contohnya:

Liverpool menunjukkan dominasinya di Inggris dan Eropa.

Hape gue baru dan sangat powerful, gak nyesel beli kayak hape sebelumnya.

Laptop gue juga udah ganas, RAM-nya di-upgrade dan jadi sangat bisa diandalkan, walaupun baterainya mulai soak.

Tahun ini juga gue mulai main Dota2, cukup telat sih sebenarnya. But still, it’s new.

2019 juga adalah pertama kali gue nonton bola langsung di GBK. Karena gue gak begitu suka keramaian, lo bisa tebaklah tiketnya gratisan, tapi VIP, jadi gausah komplain. Crowd-nya Persija gila sih, GBK udah kayak mau runtuh.

Film favorit gue tahun ini: Joker, John Wick 3, Avenger: Endgame, dan Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker.

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Januari - Februari 2019 tidak banyak yang menarik bagi gue dan hanya beberapa yang gue inget. Paling scouting untuk project dan berkenalan dengan komponen-komponen rig.

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Saat di Bulan Maret, barulah dunia mulai panas. Yang paling extreme: Penembakan jemaah masjid di Christchurch, NZ. Awalnya gue pikir negara yang ada di benua baru Zealandia ini adalah negara bagi orang-orang yang mau hidup damai, mengasingkan diri dari bising dunia, atau bahkan kalo mau jadi sufi atau biksu shaolin. Tapi perkembangan teknologi dan informasi menjangkau mana saja, Brenton Tarrant sang pembunuh massal membawa kebenciannya ke tingkat yang sangat mengerikan. Yang gue sayangkan adalah narasi ‘terrorist’ tidak bergaung sebagaimana serangan-serangan serupa sebelumnya. Well, maybe because he’s white.

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Bulan April cukup menghibur. Film terakhir Marvel Cinematic Universe phase ini: Avenger Endgame meluncur mulus ke puncak daftar film dengan pendapatan terbesar dalam sejarah menyusul Avatar-nya James Cameron. Gue sendiri nonton dua kali.

Selain itu, season terakhir serial populer HBO, Game Of Throne juga mengudara, walaupun serial agak mesum ini menuai kritikan terkait endingnya yang tidak sesuai harapan penonton, tapi menurut gue sih formula ceritanya memang begitu dari season pertama semenjak eksekusi Ned Stark. Kalo mau ending yang sesuai harapan, ya anda kembali lagi saja nonton korea. Lagian nonton bajakan di bioskopkeren(dot)com aja pakai protes trus ikut tanda tangan petisi segala.

Bulan ini pula pemilu presiden dan parlemen yang sudah diantisipasi dari tahun lalu akhirnya kejadian. Pemenangnya: Pak Jokowi. Walaupun tetap digugat ke MK oleh lawannya, tapi gue tetap percaya beliau menang. Apakah ada kecurangan? Pasti. Dan itu dari kedua belah pihak. Tapi apakah kecurangan itu bisa menyusul margin 15 juta votes? Rasanya sulit.

Tahun 2019 barangkali adalah pemilu paling kocak dalam sejarah. Gue sendiri tidak nyoblos karena masalah domisili dan sering ke lapangan, jadi tidak sempat mengurus formulir (apalah itu namanya, gue lupa). Btw calon unggulan gue adalah paslon No. 10 Nurhadi-Aldo #McQueenYaQueen

Tapi whatever the outcome, Pak Jokowi tetap presiden gue, walaupun pemerintahannya sering gue kata-katain di Twitter. Dia bukan presiden dari orang-orang yang milih dia doang, dia adalah Presiden Indonesia. Kebetulan gue punya KTP dan Passport Indonesia, jadi dia presiden gue juga, suka atau tidak. Apakah bagi orang-orang yang tidak milih Jokowi harga dolar bagi mereka jadi Rp10.000,-? Kan nggak juga, tetap aja 14.000-an.

Kembali ke perkara kocak tadi, Prabowo yang begitu ngotot ingin jadi presiden dan jadi satu-satunya penantang Jokowi, justru masuk kabinet Jokowi. Jadi apa gunanya ada pemilu yang begitu menguras anggaran, tenaga, emosi, dah bahkan nyawa orang-orang? Narasi yang di kemukakan adalah kisah Lincoln dan Seward, well I think they’re not on that level yet.

Tapi bagaimanapun gue mendoakan yang terbaik untuk negara gue, karena negara yang mengakui gue ya cuma ini.

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Mei, kalau tidak salah bulan itu adalah waktu dikeluarkannya keputusan KPU. Yang gue ingat bulan ini hanya demo keputusan pemilu yang lumayan rusuh, lalu kemudian kita semua kembali melanjutkan kegiatan menjadi rakyat jelata.

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Bulan Juni adalah bulan puasa dan lebaran. Dan dimana ada lebaran, disitu ada pulkam. Gue dapat libur lumayan lama, kayaknya hampir 2 minggu. Dan ceritanya masih sama: macet Jakarta pindah ke kampung gue.

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Bulan Juli yang gue komentarin cuma Walikota Depok yang mau narok lagu-lagu di lampu merah. Apalagi sang walkot juga narok lagunya sendiri di playlist lampu merah itu. Narsis bgt. Gue gak tau motivasinya sih, tapi bagi gue itu absurd aja.

Ngomong-ngomong tentang absurd, di tanah air Winston Churchill, Boris Johnson dilantik oleh Ratu Lucinta Luna Elizabeth II menjadi Prime Minister dengan misi menuntaskan Brexit alias Brebes Exit. Lengkap sudah konservatisme menguasai dunia: Trump, Boris Johnson, lalu ada Anies Baswedan.

Setelah gue scroll Twitter, hal lain yang gue komentarin bulan ini adalah artis kena narkoba. Kali ini giliran Nunung dan Jeri Nichol. Yang disebut terakhir gue gak tau itu siapa, gue taunya Gary Nichols yang bikin buku Sedimentology and Stratigraphy. Untuk Nichol yang tidak kena narkoba ini, I’m forever grateful.

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Bulan Agustus, yang viral adalah mati lampu di Jabodetabek. Adalah hal baru bagi warga Jakarta tapi hal yang biasa bagi orang-orang di luar Jawa. Disini kita dapat melihat betapa butuhnya ibukota terhadap energi.

Yang viral di bulan ini juga adalah Cerita KKN Desa Penari. Gue sendiri sih lebih tertarik Cerita KKN Desa Cipancur #internaljokes

Bulan Agustus juga adalah waktu diselenggarakannya turnamen e-sport terbesar di dunia: The Internasional 9. Tim favorit gue, OG, kembali menjadi juara. Nama n0tail, ana, Ceb, jerAx, & Topson terabadikan untuk kedua kalinya di belakang Piala Aegis of Immortal setelah menjadi juara juga tahun lalu. History has been written. Kenapa ini besar? Bayangkan saja prizepool TI9 itu $35.000.000. Juara 1 membawa pulang 15 juta dolar. Sekitar 200 Milyar Rupiah dibagi 5 orang. That’s insane for just playing games.

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Bulan September. Prestasi gue di bulan ini:

Gak penting sih sebenarnya.

Bulan September hanya bulan duka bagi negara kita. Guru bangsa Pak Presiden B. J. Habibie meninggal dunia menyusul sang istri. Gue cukup berduka karena generasi gue menjadikan Habibie sebagai role model anak bangsa yang cerdas. Gue khawatir anak-anak sekarang tidak punya lagi yang seperti beliau, malah tergantikan oleh JessNoLimit, Awkarni, atau bahkan YongLex. Walaupun begitu, untuk Habibie gue punya dark jokes tentang beliau sih, tapi gak akan gue sebutkan disini karena sangat tidak pantas.

Duka lain: kabut asap. Di bulan ini juga sedang marak kabut asap yang menyerang Sumatera dan Kalimantan. Kebakaran lahan gambut, baik disengaja atau tidak disengaja, membawa bencana bagi puluhan juta masyarakat yang ada di kedua pulau itu. Bahkan di Palangkaraya sempat tercatat AQI (Air Quality Index) mencapai 400 yang tergolong sangat tidak sehat dan direkomendasikan untuk mengungsi keluar kota. Sebagai catatan, AQI yang sehat itu di angka 0 - 50. Polusi udara jakarta sehari-hari itu biasanya sekitar 50 - 150, lah ini 400. Saking parahnya itu sampai ke kampung gue yang notabene di pegunungan. Cukup untuk membuat mata perih jika berkegiatan diluar rumah terlalu lama. Gue tau karena waktu itu gue pulkam seminggu.

Gue yakin walaupun ada peran bencana alam, kebakaran itu lebih banyak yang disengaja. Para pengusaha membakar lahan untuk membuka area pertanian karena secara ekonomi jelas lebih murah dibandingkan menggunakan puluhan bulldozer, masalah nanti orang meregang nyawa karena asap, itu kan tidak ada duitnya bagi mereka. Disumpahin orang satu regional Asia Tenggara juga gak bakal peduli. Gue akan bilang semoga ini tidak terjadi lagi tahun depan atau tahun-tahun berikutnya, tapi deep inside, gue pesimistis.

Duka lainnya adalah DPR mengesahkan RUU KPK dan KUHP baru. Dan disetujui oleh Presiden. Dilihat dari segi manapun, UU ini semakin mempersempit ruang gerak KPK. Kebijakan kontroversial ini macam air bah, selalu diikuti oleh perang buzzer politik di sosial media. Dalam penulisan yang populer: buzzeRp.

Sebagai akumulasi dari kemuakan masyarakat, mahasiswa turun demo ke Senayan tanggal 24 September 2019. Menandai aksi massa terbesar setelah reformasi. Tuntutan mahasiswa diantaranya RKUHP, RUU KPK, isu Papua, bencana asap, UU kekerasan seksual, dll. Bahkan anak STM pun juga turun ke jalanan. Bentrok dengan aparat tidak terhindarkan.

Ada satu gambar yang merepresentasikan dengan cukup akurat bagaimana Presiden beserta elit politiknya dimintai pertanggungjawaban terhadap masalah bangsa saat itu:

Siapapun yang membuat gambar ini, sangat brilliant!

Yang kocak adalah massa pro terhadap revisi UU KPK yang berunjuk rasa di depan gedung KPK. Ketika ditanya wartawan, nggak ada yang tau mereka memperjuangkan apa sebenarnya. Artinya itu massa bayaran. Gue sih penasaran dimana bisa nemu orang segitu banyak, tidak malu, dan mau capek-capek unjuk rasa dengan almamater tanpa lambang, tapi gak tau yang diperjuangkan apa.

Trus yang kocak lainnya, setelah demo mahasiswa ada demo yang katanya sih PA 212. Yang tuntutannya hampir sama dengan tuntutan mahasiswa, plus turunkan Jokowi (seperti biasalah). Yang gue kritisi adalah artinya mereka menolak KUHP baru, padahal di KUHP baru ini beberapa poinnya selaras dengan nilai-nilai yang mereka perjuangkan. Seperti pasal kohabitasi dan zina yang bisa dipidanakan. Artinya massa yang katanya alumni 212 dengan khilafah segala macem ini menolak orang berzina dan kumpul kebo dipidanakan? Nah lho… Padahal kan ini mempermudah kerja antum semua daripada sweeping-sweeping terus.

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Bulan Oktober masih cukup memprihatinkan. Menkopolhukam Wiranto ditusuk di Banten. My condolence to you Sir, but... Gimana ceritanya menteri keamanan mengamankan satu negara jika dia saja tidak bisa mengamankan dirinya sendiri? Trus BIN (Badan Intelijen Negara) bilang mereka udah tau bakal ada serangan bla bla bla. Lah kalo udah tau kenapa bisa kejadian? Ngeluarin statement kayak gitu cuma bikin Intel keliatan bloon. Tapi gak usah diteruskan lah, gue cuma mau meletakkan gambar ini disini:

OYAJIIIIIIII !!!!!!!!

Netizen memang kurang ajar.

Ada lagi tawuran Manggarai, yang bikin kereta terlambat. Maksud gue, apasih ini orang-orang berantem mulu kurang kerjaan. Gue saranin download PUBG atau Game of Sultans aja lah biar ada kegiatan.

Ngomong-ngomong tentang PUBG yang berencana diharamkan MUI, sebetulnya bisa diakali dengan mengembangkan narasi bahwa PUBG bisa dijadikan media untuk berlatih jihad fi sabilillah. Mengingat militer pun juga menggunakan permainan First-Person Shooter semacam ini untuk berlatih.

Ngomong-ngomong tentang Game of Sultans yang iklannya bejibun dimana-mana, keresahan gue adalah temanya yang Middle East. Namanya Game of Sultans, tapi developer-nya China. Ini kan mirip 212Mart tapi dikelola Ahoker. Nah disaat seperti inilah meme Counselor Palpatine yang menjadi meme favorit gue tahun ini keluar:

Di akhir Oktober, di pesta Halloween salah satu artis, ada yang cosplay Melly Goeslow. Melly Goeslow jelas marah-marah ngamuk-ngamuk. Melly Goeslow is No-slow anymore.

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November nyaris membosankan. Yang gue ingat hanya timnas yang kalah terus di kualifikasi Piala Dunia. Yang gue gak suka adalah komentator pertandingan yang saat Indonesia tertinggal atau kalah, dia terus mengangkat moral masyarakat dengan mengatakan bahwa Timnas kita kelasnya masih diatas tim lawan. Padahal sang komentator, above everyone else, tau persis bahwa Timnas kita mainnya kayak sampah.

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Bulan Desember gue habiskan di luar kantor. Awal bulan scouting seismic di lapangan selama 2 minggu, nongol di kantor 2 hari, trus cuti 1 minggu pulang kampung sampai tahun 2020. So far, I’m having a good time.

Bulan Desember ini juga Pencak Silat akhirnya diakui sebagai warisan tak benda dunia oleh UNESCO. Sebagai orang yang pernah menghantar pisau, beras, dll. sebagai syarat belajar silat, gue sangat bangga.

Masalah terus di Indonesia. Bulan ini Dirut Garuda Indonesia dicopot karena selundupkan Motor Harley Davidson dalam pesawat yang baru dibeli Garuda dari Airbus Prancis. Kasus ini memancing kasus lain seperti rekayasa laporan keuangan Garuda dan prostitusi antara kalangan elit Garuda dan Pramugari. Hal ini sudah jadi rahasia umum sebetulnya, tapi menjadi masalah besar ketika pembicaraanya dibawa ke ruang publik. Di Twitter hal ini populer dengan istilah Gundik Garuda. Sebelum kasus ini, kata “gundik” masih positif di telinga gue, gambaran gundik bagi gue adalah Nyai Ontosoroh yang cerdas dan tangguh dalam mahakarya Pramoedya Ananta Toer: Bumi Manusia. Setelah kasus ini, dan gue cek lagi di kamus, “gundik” ternyata sangat negatif.

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Beberapa kebijakan pemerintah tahun ini yang patut dicermati adalah :

Kenaikan tarif BPJS

Grasi untuk koruptor

Surpres utk revisi UU KPK

Menolak terbitkan perppu KPK

Pemindahan ibukota.

Tentang Pemindahan ibukota ini, gue setuju dengan penelitian Pak Andang Bachtiar terkait posisi ibukota baru yang secara geologi berada di atas area yang kesulitan air. Jadi melihat Design Nagara Rimba Nusa yang menang sayembara design ibukota baru, kayaknya ibukota baru bakal kesulitan mengisi sungai-sungainya yang indah itu dengan air. Jangan sampai pindah ibukota yang bertujuan menyelesaikan masalah justru menambah masalah baru.

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Sedikit kritik gue ke Pak Jokowi: (1) Anda jangan kesal terus Pak. Anda kan Presiden, orang paling berkuasa, kenapa ketika ada masalah yang tidak beres Anda kesal? Kesal mah tugas rakyat, Tugas Anda membereskan kekesalan rakyat, bukan malah ikut-ikutan kesal. (2) Trus kalo bisa hindari diksi “Saya minta…”, sebaiknya anda pakai “Saya perintahkan…” Anda kan Presiden, masa minta ke anak buah, perintahkan dong. Minta mah tugas kami, minta upah naik, minta harga BBM turun, minta harga tiket diturunkan, dsb. Anda jangan ikut-ikutan minta dong.. Anda ini kan kepala negara sekaligus kepala pemerintahan. Artinya anda juga simbol martabat negara, jangan cuma bisa nangkepin haters anda doang, anda sendiri nggak menjaga kehormatan presiden. Kalo nggak percaya coba aja googling “Jokowi kesal” atau “Jokowi minta”. Tahun ini saja entah berapa kali Pak Jokowi kesal atau minta-minta.

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Seperti biasa, akhir tahun saatnya pamer Spotify Top Song of the Year. Walaupun sebenarnya adalah pamer bahwa Spotify-nya dia Premium. Gue sendiri ikutan ngepost kayak begini:

Gue tidak menampilkan Top Song 2019 gue karena believe it or not, peringkat pertamanya adalah lagu Korea BTS ft Halsey, gue lupa judulnya. Wait wait wait… Jangan serang gue dulu..

In my defence, (1) gue baru makai Spotify lagi di akhir tahun karena biasanya dengerin musik ya dari Youtube aja, jadi ini tidak serta merta mencerminkan selera musik gue, (2) gue putar lagu korea itu dengan repeat one lalu gue tinggal seharian di meja, jadi terlihat oleh algorithm Spotify sebagai lagu favourite gue selama tahun 2019, padahal tidak. 

Jadi demikianlah pembelaan saya, wahai para Nyai dan Ki Sanak sekalian…

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Tahun ini juga gue lumayan struggling with bodyweight. Dari awal tahun kayaknya gue udah naik 10 kilo. Secara BMI tinggal sedikit lagi menuju gemuk, jadinya gue menambah aktivitas fisik menjelang akhir tahun, karena kalo ngurangin makan kayaknya agak susah. Pada dasarnya gue tidak malas olah raga, gue rutin main bola setiap rabu dan futsal setiap kamis, tapi olah raga cardio macam itu susah dipakai menurunkan berat badan, jadi gue sesekali juga harus weightlifting.

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Dekade ini gue tutup sekaligus membuka dekade berikutnya dengan kondisi kepala botak. Membuat gue ditanya kenapa botak atau diketawain orang-orang yang gue kenal. Biasanya biar cepet dibilang abis umroh, biar hemat shampoo, atau biar kepala gue ringan. Kadang kalo gue lagi santai gue bilang biar rambut gue sehat karena katanya sih dengan sesekali botak, rambut akan tumbuh lebih bagus, gak tau itu teori darimana.

Adapun alasan gue yang agak filosofis sih karena gue kangen aja dicukur oleh Uda gue. Karena sebelum merantau, di keluarga kami biasanya gue mencukur kepala Bapak, Bapak mencukur kepala Uda, dan Uda mencukur kepala gue. Tapi kenapa harus botak? Well ini sebenarnya usaha gue untuk sedikit demi sedikit lepas dari constraints yang sebetulnya hanya ada dalam kepala. Misalnya: kepala tidak boleh botak, lah memangnya kenapa? Tidak boleh pake sendal swallow ke mall, lah memangnya kenapa? Malu nonton bioskop sendiri, lah memangnya kenapa? Kalo kita perhatikan, banyak di hidup kita batasan-batasan yang tidak perlu, tapi entah bagaimana mulanya, batasan-batasan itu ada. Gue cuma mau lepas dari constraints yang tidak berguna itu, dan melakukan apapun yang gue mau.

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Sayangnya tahun 2019 masih saja ditutup dengan jokes receh sampah basi kayak: “cepet banget waktu, perasaan tadi malam masih 2019, sekarang udah 2020 aja” atau “jangan masuk toilet tengah malam nanti, kamu bisa-bisa keluar tahun depan.”

GIMME A BREAK!

[superhalfrussian]

Russia saves the Union. During Clay's absence from St. Petersburg from June 1862 until the spring of 1863, there was no wavering of Russia's support for the Union. Cameron arrived in St. Petersburg in June 1862 with instructions from Lincoln to secure an interview with the czar, to ``learn the Russian monarch's attitude in the event England and France force their unwelcome intervention.'' After the interview, Cameron was able to report to Lincoln: ``The Czar's spokesmen have assured me that in case of trouble with the other European powers, the friendship of Russia for the United States would be shown in a decisive manner which no other nation will be able to mistake.''  

Cameron wrote the following on the Russian political situation to Secretary of State Seward in July 1862: ``The Russians are evincing the most candid friendship for the North.... They are showing a constant desire to interpret everything to our advantage. There is no capital in Europe where the loyal American meets with such universal sympathy as at St. Petersburg, none where the suppression of our unnatural rebellion will be hailed with more genuine satisfaction.''  

Already by the Civil War's summer 1862 campaigns, every knowledgeable leading political figure in Europe and the United States was drawing the conclusion that foreign intervention in the American Civil War in support of the Confederacy would be taken as a casus belli by Russia.  

The autumn of 1862 was extremely critical for the Union. England and France were on the verge of military intervention on the side of the Confederacy. On the Union side, everyone was girding for an Anglo-French invasion, an invasion which could include British allies Spain and Austria as well. Anglo-French pressure on Russia to abandon its pro-Union stance was stepped up to fever pitch. The Union's salvation depended on Russia.  

Lincoln, in this darkest hour of his administration, sent an urgent personal letter to Russian Foreign Minister Gorchakov for delivery to the czar. Lincoln believed correctly that France had already decided to intervene and was only awaiting a go-ahead from England. Lincoln was under no illusions that if the Union was to be saved, it would be saved by Russia. And Russia came through.  

We quote here in full Foreign Minister Gorchakov's reply to the President, drafted in the name of Czar Alexander II. It is one of the most critical documents in American and world history:  

``You know that the government of United States has few friends among the Powers. England rejoices over what is happening to you; she longs and prays for your overthrow. France is less actively hostile; her interests would be less affected by the result; but she is not unwilling to see it. She is not your friend. Your situation is getting worse and worse. The chances of preserving the Union are growing more desperate. Can nothing be done to stop this dreadful war? The hope of reunion is growing less and less, and I wish to impress upon your government that the separation, which I fear must come, will be considered by Russia as one of the greatest misfortunes. Russia alone, has stood by you from the first, and will continue to stand by you. We are very, very anxious that some means should be adopted--that any course should be pursued--which will prevent the division which now seems inevitable. One separation will be followed by another; you will break into fragments (emphasis in original).''

Bayard Taylor, secretary of the legation to St. Petersburg, acting under Lincoln's instructions, gave the U.S. reply:

``We feel that the Northern and Southern States cannot peacefully exist side by side as separate republics. There is nothing the American people desire so much as peace, but peace on the basis of separation is equivalent to continual war. We have only just called the whole strength of the nation into action. We believe the struggle now commencing will be final, and we cannot without disgrace and ruin, accept the only terms tried and failed.''

  Gorchakov reiterated Russia's stance, giving Taylor the following message to convey to Lincoln.

``You know the sentiments of Russia. We desire above all things the maintenance of the American Union as one indivisible nation. We cannot take any part, more than we have done. We have no hostility to the Southern people. Russia has declared her position and will maintain it. There will be proposals of intervention [by Britain]. We believe that intervention could do no good at present. Proposals will be made to Russia to join some plan of interference. She will refuse any intervention of the kind. Russia will occupy the same ground as at the beginning of the struggle. You may rely upon it, she will not change. But we entreat you to settle the difficulty. I cannot express to you how profound an anxiety we feel--how serious are our fears (emphasis in original).'' http://members.tripod.com/~american_almanac/russcwar.htm

[polixy]

In a rising number of U.S. counties, Hispanic and black Americans are the majority

In a rising number of U.S. counties, Hispanic and black Americans are the majority;

Non-Hispanic white Americans account for 60% of the U.S. population, but in a growing number of counties, a majority of residents are Hispanic or black, reflecting the nation’s changing demographics and shifting migration patterns.

In 2018, there were 151 U.S. counties where Hispanics, blacks or two much smaller racial and ethnic groups – American Indians and Alaska Natives – made up a majority of the population, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. That was an increase from 110 such counties in 2000. The 41 counties that joined the list between 2000 and 2018 are all majority Hispanic or majority black. (For a full list of these counties, see the sortable table at the end of the post.)

Overall, 69 counties were majority Hispanic in 2018, 72 were majority black and 10 were majority American Indian or Alaska Native. The majority American Indian or Alaska Native counties are unique in that most have experienced overall population declines since 2000, even as the share of American Indian or Alaska Native residents in these counties remained fairly flat.

There were no U.S. counties where Asians accounted for more than half of the population, but in Honolulu County, Hawaii, the population was 42% Asian and 9% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.

The South and Southwest of the United States hold most of the counties where Hispanic, black or indigenous people make up a majority of residents. These counties represent just 5% of the 3,142 counties in the U.S. and about half of the country’s 293 majority nonwhite counties (a figure that includes counties where multiple racial and ethnic groups combine to account for a majority).

About this analysis

This analysis includes only counties with a minimum population of 10,000 in 2018. These counties represent 77% of the nation’s 3,142 counties and include 99% of the U.S. population.

For this analysis, a majority is defined as more than 50% of the population.

Rapid growth in majority Hispanic counties

The number of majority Hispanic counties doubled between 2000 and 2018, from 34 to 69 – mostly in the South and West. In all but four of these 69 counties, the Hispanic share of the population grew during that period. The few counties that experienced declines saw only slight decreases, and no county that was majority Hispanic in 2000 fell below 50% Hispanic by 2018.

These trends are in line with the growth of the U.S. Hispanic population as a whole, which reached a new high in 2018 even as its rate of growth slowed. The Latino population grew at a faster rate than most other racial or ethnic groups during the 2000s, due to relatively high birth rates among Hispanic women and immigration from Latin America.

Related: See Pew Research Center’s U.S. population projections through 2065, which provide a look at immigration’s impact on population growth and on racial and ethnic change.

In 2018, Texas was home to the 10 counties in the U.S. with the largest shares of Hispanic residents. Starr County, home to about 65,000 people overall, had the largest concentration of Hispanic residents, at 96% of the population. Other counties where Hispanics accounted for an especially large share of residents included Webb (95%), Hidalgo (92%) and Cameron counties (90%) – all in Texas.

The Hispanic populations of some larger U.S. counties also grew between 2000 and 2018. San Bernardino County, California (population 2.2 million) was the most populous county to become majority Hispanic during this span. Osceola County, Florida (home to about 370,000) saw the largest percentage point increase in Hispanic residents during this time (26 points, rising from 29% to 55%).

The migrating U.S. black population

While the black share of the total U.S. population has not changed substantially over the last two decades, the number of majority black counties in the U.S. grew from 65 to 72 between 2000 and 2018. One contributing factor may be migration of black Americans from the North to the South and from cities into suburbs.

There are now 15 majority black counties that were not majority black in 2000. Among them, Rockdale County, Georgia, located about half an hour outside Atlanta, had the largest percentage point increase in the share of black residents (from 18% in 2000 to 55% in 2018). With about 930,000 residents, Shelby County, Tennessee, which contains Memphis, was the county with the largest population to become majority black.

The 10 counties with the highest shares of black residents in 2018 were in Mississippi (seven counties) Alabama (two) and Virginia (one). In these 10 counties, about 70% or more residents were black.

Meanwhile, eight counties that were majority black in 2000 are no longer. Three of these are large U.S. cities that the Census Bureau includes in its county estimates: Washington, D.C.; Richmond, Virginia; and St. Louis, Missouri. Washington (home to roughly 702,000 residents in 2018) saw a 19% increase in total population during that period, while its black population decreased by 9%. The city’s share of black residents declined by 15 percentage points, from 60% to 45%.

Majority American Indian or Alaska Native counties

In 2018, there were eight U.S. counties where more than half of the population was American Indian; two other counties were majority Alaska Native.

While majority Hispanic and black counties are growing in number, these predominantly American Indian or Alaska Native counties have experienced net population loss from 2000 to 2018. And one county that was majority American Indian or Alaska Native in 2000 is no longer: San Juan County, Utah, where the share of American Indian residents fell 8 percentage points, from 55% to 47%.

All 10 majority American Indian counties are located on or near reservation land in the Midwest and the West, and most have populations of fewer than 20,000 people. The exceptions are McKinley County, New Mexico, and Apache County, Arizona, both of which are home to about 72,000 people.

The two counties where the majority of residents were Alaska Native are both in rural Alaska: Bethel Census Area (population of roughly 18,000) and Nome Census Area (population of about 10,000).

  Population in U.S. counties where Hispanic, black or indigenous people are a large share of residents

State County % of population that was one racial/ethnic group other than white in 2000 % of population that was one racial/ethnic group other than white in 2018 Largest racial/ethnic group, 2018 Alabama Bullock County 72.6% 69.5% Black Alabama Dallas County 63.0% 70.0% Black Alabama Hale County 59.2% 57.8% Black Alabama Macon County 84.3% 80.0% Black Alabama Marengo County 51.4% 51.1% Black Alabama Montgomery County 48.5% 58.5% Black Alabama Sumter County 72.4% 71.4% Black Alabama Wilcox County 71.4% 70.7% Black Alaska Bethel Census Area 81.7% 82.3% American Indian/Alaska Native Alaska Nome Census Area 75.0% 74.1% American Indian/Alaska Native Arizona Apache County 76.5% 73.2% American Indian/Alaska Native Arizona Santa Cruz County 80.8% 83.4% Hispanic Arizona Yuma County 50.5% 64.3% Hispanic Arkansas Chicot County 53.5% 53.4% Black Arkansas Crittenden County 46.9% 53.7% Black Arkansas Jefferson County 49.4% 56.8% Black Arkansas Phillips County 58.6% 61.4% Black Arkansas St. Francis County 48.7% 52.3% Black California Colusa County 46.5% 60.3% Hispanic California Fresno County 44.0% 53.5% Hispanic California Imperial County 72.2% 84.6% Hispanic California Kern County 38.4% 54.0% Hispanic California Kings County 43.6% 55.0% Hispanic California Madera County 44.3% 58.3% Hispanic California Merced County 45.3% 60.2% Hispanic California Monterey County 46.8% 59.1% Hispanic California San Benito County 47.9% 60.6% Hispanic California San Bernardino County 39.2% 54.0% Hispanic California Tulare County 50.8% 65.2% Hispanic District of Columbia District of Columbia 59.9% 44.9% Black Florida Gadsden County 57.0% 55.1% Black Florida Hendry County 39.6% 54.3% Hispanic Florida Miami-Dade County 57.3% 69.1% Hispanic Florida Osceola County 29.4% 55.3% Hispanic Georgia Bibb County 47.2% 55.0% Black Georgia Burke County 50.8% 46.9% Black Georgia Clayton County 51.4% 69.9% Black Georgia DeKalb County 54.3% 53.7% Black Georgia Dougherty County 60.0% 70.3% Black Georgia Early County 47.8% 51.0% Black Georgia Jefferson County 56.0% 52.4% Black Georgia Macon County 59.2% 59.8% Black Georgia Richmond County 49.5% 56.0% Black Georgia Rockdale County 18.1% 55.4% Black Georgia Sumter County 48.8% 52.4% Black Georgia Washington County 53.1% 53.3% Black Kansas Finney County 43.3% 50.5% Hispanic Kansas Ford County 37.7% 55.5% Hispanic Kansas Seward County 42.1% 62.0% Hispanic Louisiana Claiborne Parish 47.1% 51.6% Black Louisiana Madison Parish 60.2% 62.4% Black Louisiana Orleans Parish 66.9% 59.1% Black Louisiana St. Helena Parish 51.9% 51.9% Black Louisiana St. John the Baptist Parish 44.6% 57.0% Black Louisiana West Feliciana Parish 50.1% 44.3% Black Maryland Baltimore city 64.2% 61.9% Black Maryland Prince George’s County 62.6% 61.9% Black Mississippi Adams County 52.5% 52.4% Black Mississippi Bolivar County 64.8% 63.6% Black Mississippi Clay County 56.1% 58.5% Black Mississippi Coahoma County 68.9% 76.6% Black Mississippi Copiah County 50.7% 51.2% Black Mississippi Hinds County 60.9% 72.4% Black Mississippi Holmes County 78.0% 82.0% Black Mississippi Jasper County 52.7% 53.0% Black Mississippi Jefferson Davis County 57.1% 59.6% Black Mississippi Kemper County 57.7% 60.7% Black Mississippi Leflore County 67.3% 74.0% Black Mississippi Marshall County 50.1% 47.0% Black Mississippi Noxubee County 68.9% 71.8% Black Mississippi Pike County 47.3% 53.1% Black Mississippi Sunflower County 69.5% 73.2% Black Mississippi Tallahatchie County 59.0% 56.7% Black Mississippi Washington County 64.3% 71.9% Black Mississippi Yazoo County 53.6% 56.7% Black Missouri St. Louis city 51.1% 45.6% Black Montana Big Horn County 58.4% 62.6% American Indian/Alaska Native Montana Glacier County 61.0% 63.0% American Indian/Alaska Native Montana Roosevelt County 55.0% 58.0% American Indian/Alaska Native New Mexico Bernalillo County 42.0% 50.3% Hispanic New Mexico Chaves County 43.8% 57.2% Hispanic New Mexico Doña Ana County 63.4% 68.6% Hispanic New Mexico Grant County 48.8% 50.7% Hispanic New Mexico Lea County 39.7% 59.4% Hispanic New Mexico Luna County 57.8% 67.6% Hispanic New Mexico McKinley County 73.4% 73.9% American Indian/Alaska Native New Mexico Rio Arriba County 72.9% 71.2% Hispanic New Mexico San Miguel County 78.0% 77.5% Hispanic New Mexico Santa Fe County 49.0% 51.1% Hispanic New Mexico Taos County 58.0% 56.9% Hispanic New Mexico Valencia County 54.9% 61.0% Hispanic New York Bronx County 48.4% 56.4% Hispanic North Carolina Bertie County 62.1% 60.7% Black North Carolina Edgecombe County 57.2% 57.2% Black North Carolina Halifax County 52.3% 53.1% Black North Carolina Hertford County 59.3% 60.3% Black North Carolina Northampton County 59.4% 56.9% Black North Carolina Vance County 48.0% 50.5% Black North Carolina Warren County 54.4% 50.6% Black North Dakota Rolette County 72.5% 76.6% American Indian/Alaska Native South Carolina Bamberg County 62.2% 59.8% Black South Carolina Clarendon County 53.0% 46.9% Black South Carolina Fairfield County 58.9% 57.0% Black South Carolina Hampton County 55.4% 52.7% Black South Carolina Jasper County 52.5% 41.0% Black South Carolina Lee County 63.4% 63.6% Black South Carolina Marion County 56.1% 56.3% Black South Carolina Marlboro County 50.6% 50.6% Black South Carolina Orangeburg County 60.7% 61.6% Black South Carolina Williamsburg County 66.0% 64.4% Black South Dakota Oglala Lakota County 93.2% 89.5% American Indian/Alaska Native South Dakota Todd County 84.5% 82.6% American Indian/Alaska Native Tennessee Haywood County 50.9% 50.2% Black Tennessee Shelby County 48.5% 53.6% Black Texas Andrews County 40.0% 56.6% Hispanic Texas Atascosa County 58.6% 64.7% Hispanic Texas Bee County 53.9% 59.3% Hispanic Texas Bexar County 54.3% 60.5% Hispanic Texas Caldwell County 40.4% 53.0% Hispanic Texas Cameron County 84.4% 89.8% Hispanic Texas Dawson County 48.2% 58.1% Hispanic Texas Deaf Smith County 57.4% 73.5% Hispanic Texas Dimmit County 85.0% 87.4% Hispanic Texas Duval County 88.0% 89.1% Hispanic Texas Ector County 42.4% 61.3% Hispanic Texas El Paso County 78.2% 83.0% Hispanic Texas Frio County 73.8% 79.3% Hispanic Texas Gonzales County 39.6% 51.5% Hispanic Texas Hale County 47.9% 59.7% Hispanic Texas Hidalgo County 88.4% 92.4% Hispanic Texas Jim Wells County 75.7% 80.4% Hispanic Texas Karnes County 47.4% 55.3% Hispanic Texas Kleberg County 65.4% 73.4% Hispanic Texas Lamb County 43.5% 55.9% Hispanic Texas Maverick County 95.0% 95.2% Hispanic Texas Medina County 45.5% 52.4% Hispanic Texas Moore County 47.5% 56.3% Hispanic Texas Nueces County 55.8% 64.2% Hispanic Texas Pecos County 61.0% 68.8% Hispanic Texas Reeves County 73.4% 75.0% Hispanic Texas San Patricio County 49.4% 58.4% Hispanic Texas Starr County 97.5% 96.4% Hispanic Texas Terry County 44.1% 55.9% Hispanic Texas Uvalde County 65.9% 72.1% Hispanic Texas Val Verde County 75.5% 82.5% Hispanic Texas Ward County 42.0% 54.3% Hispanic Texas Webb County 94.3% 95.5% Hispanic Texas Willacy County 85.7% 88.4% Hispanic Texas Zapata County 85.4% 94.6% Hispanic Texas Zavala County 91.2% 93.9% Hispanic Utah San Juan County 55.2% 47.4% American Indian/Alaska Native Virginia Brunswick County 56.7% 54.6% Black Virginia Danville city 44.0% 50.5% Black Virginia Greensville County 59.7% 59.0% Black Virginia Petersburg city 78.7% 76.3% Black Virginia Portsmouth city 50.4% 53.3% Black Virginia Richmond city 57.2% 46.8% Black Virginia Sussex County 62.0% 56.1% Black Washington Adams County 47.1% 64.3% Hispanic Washington Franklin County 46.6% 53.5% Hispanic

Note: This analysis includes only counties with 10,000 or more residents in 2018. These counties account for 77% of the nation’s 3,142 counties and 99% of the U.S. population.

Source: Pew Research Center analysis of 2000 decennial census and 2018 Census Bureau population estimates.

; Blog – Pew Research Center; https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/20/in-a-rising-number-of-u-s-counties-hispanic-and-black-americans-are-the-majority/; https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/FT_19.11.06_CountyDemographics_feature.png; November 20, 2019 at 02:52PM

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JSCC Spring Semester Honor Roll Announced

Spring Semester Honor Roll Announced

 Jackson, Tenn (June 21, 2017) – The Office of Admissions and Records at Jackson State Community College released the honor roll for the Spring 2017 semester. On the honor roll, there were 307 full-time students who achieved a quality point average over 3.00. There were 381 students who made the dean’s list by achieving a quality point average of 3.50 or better.

 Honor Roll is reserved for students who are enrolled for twelve (12) or more hours of college-level work (Learning Support excluded) and who complete a semester’s work with a quality point average between 3.00 and 3.49.

Dean’s List is reserved for students who are enrolled for twelve (12) or more hours of college-level work and who complete a semester’s work with a quality point average between 3.50 and 4.00.

JSCC Dean’s List Spring 2017

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BENTON

Dylan Blake Furr

Tanner David Johnson

Kaitlyn Annette Page

William C Vick

John Henry Benjamin York

CARROLL

Samantha Madison Barrow

Kristina Marie Cannon

Kimberly Ryan Canoy

Jonathan Thomas Cash

Leslie Marie Cathey

David Michael Deloach

Samantha Leigh Ferguson

Scott Eugene Force

Kalee Jo Fountain

Whitney Nicole Hicks

Dan Ellsworth Hoffman

Carl William Joyner

Kirsten L Joyner

Mitchell Brandon McCartney

Cheyenne Harley Moran

Rachel E Noles

Russell Lee Noles

Deborah Ann OBryant

Steven Hunter Peterson

Lacy Jolene Pride

Channa Larame Ragsdale

Alysia Marlana Shear

Sarah C Taylor

Brittany Nicole Watson

Brittany Nicole Webb

Matthew Tyler Williams

Michael Elihu Wilson

Christopher Wesley Wood

CHESTER

James Howard Barber

Trae Daniel Brewer

Loleta Dorilean Carothers

David Gaddy Carroll

Christopher Edward Cox

Landon Thomas Cupples

McKinley Brooke Farley

Ashley Michelle Faulkner

Ashley Dianne Frye

Johnny Alfred Glass

Heath S Graves

Cameron Lane Greer

CHESTER continued:

Tori Brooke Hill

Haley Elaine Hughes

Coty Alan Laudermilk

Brooklyn Rene Miller

Peyton Randal Millner

Carlee Elizabeth Morris

Brand Edward Nicolay

Kenneth E Page

Eva Perez

Colton L Plunk

Reba Marie Price

Chase Colton Ross

Caitlin Jenee Sanchez

Michael Sinclair Segerson

Ezekiel Joesph Smith

Kendyl Dawn Smith

Peyton Wesley Stewart

Amber Dawn Thompson

Sydney Blair Watson

Marcus Lee White

COFFEE

Ryan Yates Dye

CROCKETT

Jesus Aguirre

Telisa Shuntel Brown

Jill Anna Castellaw

Aaron Christopher Dennison

Kelsey Ann Gadberry

Meleah Rose Gateley

Michelle Lynn Jones

Candice Woods Kellough

Anthony Chance Lovelace

Jennifer Mooney

Whitney M Revelle

Micah C Riley

Ana Julissa Rios

Kayce Abigail Stallings

DAVIDSON

Latoya Antionette Gibbs

DECATUR

Whitlee Adraianna Camper

Lauren Ashlee Hays

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Kyla Bree Linton

Stephanie Lynn Mitchell

Jessica Brooke Patton

Macy Camille Sumler

Decatur continued:

Bryan Wood Swafford

Misty R Swindle

Brandon M White

DYER

Talia Suzanne Alley

Dalton Wayne Harrison

Cara Lee Rose

Erica D Tipps

Chloe Jo West

GIBSON

Peyton Charles Adams

Karen Nicole Allen

Bryan Kevin Barnett

Seth Brayden Burchett

Dylan Warner Cole

Kendall Nicole Cox

Michael Scott Evans

Robert Mcgregor Fly

Andrew Joseph Gordon

Nicholas Grant Gutierrez

Hailey Brooke Hudgings

Kahmadre Jay-Quan Hudson

Hannah B Hutchison

Ryan Daniel Jones

Kaitlyn Michelle Kelly

Ryan Dennison Mayfield

Amy Alison McCoy

Madison Brooke Michael

Sa'Liyah Ann Newbill

Andrew Lloyd Oliver

Samantha Kelly Palmer

Ashley McClain Pierce

Alexander Popp

Benjamin Douglas Powell

Dylan Ray Powers

Jonathan Chase Prescott

Courtney Michelle Reese

Katelyn Nicole Rickman

Crystal Lee Rogers

Tasha N Romero

Gage Michael Schneeberger

Brooklyn Victoria Schrupp

Katherine Michelle Stephens

Hunter Michael Taylor

Michael Sean Threadgill

Colton R Tucker

Katherine Walters

Deonte Tyshawn Watson

HARDEMAN

Alexis Rebekah Beibers

Hannah Rose Black

Tyler D Callahan

Rachel Elise Davis

Austin Wade Greene

Luz D Gutierrez

Katlin Leigh Kelley

William Stewart Koimn

Brittany L Luttrell

Hannah Grace Scott

Marissa Drew Thweatt

Carly Rae Weems

HARDIN

Dustin Blake Ayers

Teara Genea Bearden

William Warren Bond

Amber Nicole Bowling

James Caleb Crotts

Kaylee Renea Gillis

Julia Renee Hall

Chandler Davis Harris

Caden Charles Holt

Savanna Cheyenne Liford

Sarah Ann Marshall

Katy Carroll Nix

Samantha Dawn Oaks

Sasia Sewilta Patterson

Savana Rae Payne

Hannah Lynne Roberts

Amanda Grace Sandusky

LauraAnn M Shiver

Jodie Lee Smith

Kaila Grace Smith

Lauren G Smith

Peggy Ann Snyder

Jessica Lee Ann Stricklin

Alexis Alley Thurman

Jennifer Michelle Vandiver

Destiny Brooke Weeks

Alison R Whaley

JSCC Dean’s List Spring 2017

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Haley LeAnne White

Kanesha L Wright

HAYWOOD

Henry Stanley Clement

Mary Catherine Currie

Presley Grace Gaters

Danielle Nicole House

HAYWOOD continued:

Caroline Elizabeth Newcom

Elizabeth Blair Simpson

Ashton Muriel Taylor

Kristin Brooke Turner

Emily H Wright

HENDERSON

Anthony Glynn Anderson

Jaclyn Devin Arnold

Andrew B Austin

Bethany Jo Autry

Emily Gore Baughn

Trent Cavalier Beacham

Justin Andrew Brown

Molly Brooke Brown

Leighann Nicole Burkett

Eduardo Carreto-Salgado

Charles Michael Carrington

Lauren Rae Cole

Tonie L Coleman

Emily Anne Dyer

Paul Leo Fowler

Cassidy O Garner

Johnathan Keith Goodman

Melissa Allean Gray

Andrew Garrett Grice

Bethany G Hayes

Crystal Renee James

Haley Nichole James

Kristen F Lawler

Sarah Michelle Lindsey

Abigail Marie Maness

Morgan Elizabeth Maness

Jessica Brooke Montgomery

Fernando Gonzales Munoz

Vanessa Ann Nelms

Jimmy Hunter Powell

Katelynn Allison Nichole Pratt

Allyson C Reeves

Alyssa L Reeves

Kaley Elizabeth Rogers

Jacob Daniel Smith

Kersten L Springer

Dalton Bryce Womack

HENRY

Samantha Frances Dixon

Taylor Brooke French

Seth Zachary Gibbs

Courtland Nicole Hester

David Penick

HUMPHREYS

Ashley Nicole Bates

LAUDERDALE

Andrew Carver Dunavant

Conner Clayton McLemore

John Daniel Moore

Jakara L Snipes

MADISON

Remoun Abdo

Cassidi Grace Adams

Malarie Alexander

Sajedah Alghunaim

Rami Amer Al-Jafari

Kimbrielle Elise Allen

Kaitlan Sheree Anthony

Faith Selene Atherton

Colin Andrew Barnett

Marietta Nicole Barnett

Sydney Taylor Brookshire

Ethel Louise Brown

Megan Fairchild Buehler

Michael Aaron Campbell

Jessica Dianne Carter

LeeAnne Madison Clement

Rachael Merriem Clenney

Curtis Andrew Cobb

Jacqueline Brooke Cole

Vania Evette Comer

Claire Allison Cooke

Humberto Coronado

JSCC Dean’s List Spring 2017

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Alberto Coronado Chavez

Christian Taylor Cotner

Melissa Anne Craigie

Sarah Mae Craigie

Jarius Okuria Curry

Kiley Renee Douglas

Sarah Elizabeth Droke

Diana Steffy Escober

Chloe Nicole Espitia

Jessica Danielle Gibson

Damian Jordan Gladney

Zia Goli

MADISON continued:

James Tucker Goodwin

Sydney Gail Grammer

Brianna Madison Gregory

Eric Michael Gunn

Olivia Marie Guzzo

Alex James Haggard

Marshall Britton Hammill

Korean Nichele Harris

Garry E Harvey

Sarah Elaine Harvey

Amanda Nicole Haynes

Berlie Grace Hieagle

Edith Charity Horst

Cody Lynn Hunt

Kayla Nichole Johnson

Kassidy Blair Jones

Hailey Renee Jones

Meagan Hope Kitchen

Janelle Nicole Kyle

JuliaAnne Frances Lansdale

Dillion Robert Larimore

Patrisha Dannielle Leadbetter

Sarah Fulton Lim

Philippe Lumpkin

Lance Austine McElroy

Michael Todd McFadden

Natalie Mendoza

Blanca Estela Mireles Valdez

Madison Marie Montchal

Michael Lee Montgomery

Stephen Houston Morse

Belinda Sue Murchison

Andrew Steven Murley

Justin Robert Mutschler

Callyn Leonard Nims

Rebekah June Pennington

Nicholas Anthony Pica

Brittney Michelle Pickens

Anthony Daniele Previtera

Paige Marie Ramage

Teena Maree Rea

Nicolas N Reyes

Anna Belle Robertson

Xavius K Robinson

Eric Lee Rooks

Rachel Elizabeth Royer

Adriana Salinas

John Louis Santana

Sandra Shari Santiago-Bullington

Heaven Leigh Schatz

MADISON continued:

Tempestt Bernice Seward

Hailey Elizabeth Shephard

Joseph Michael Shephard

Mya Taylor Spivey

Allison Claire Stutts

Victoria Lynn Subia

Kimberly Nichole Sullivan

Brooklyn Marie Taylor

Debra Taylor

Allison Faith Thomas

Robert Mikael Utley

Ryne Vinson

Jordan Breanne Warren

Kenneth Connor Weaks

Clay E Webb

Kaylyn Alyra Weddle

Jacob Dylan Weidner

Destiny Marie Westbrook

Elizabeth Renee Williams

Ashton Vernard Willis

Kameron Dean Wilson

Noah Alyssa Wilson

Brooke Ashlyn Woodard

Brinlea Madison Woodard

Ryan K Woods

Alexander Ryan Wortham

Jeremy Dean Yates

Kelci Nicole Zabriskie

McNAIRY

Kathrine Rose Atkinson

Joanna Elizabeth Barlow

Jonathan Ray Bauer

Carrie Elizabeth Clausel

JSCC Dean’s List Spring 2017

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Haylie Marissa Crum

Elizabeth Hope Doucette

Shelbi Elise Doucette

Eric Ryan Gowler

Evan Parker Harris

Kateryna Kucherenko

Warren Austin Lowrance

Mary-Elizabeth Adale Lyons

Payton James Mast

Elizabeth Nicole Miller

Andrew Vinson Pettit

Tamara A Pickens

Samuel Reid Pierce

Jacob Alan Qualls

Ashton Brooks Rich

Josiah David Rininger

McNAIRY continued:

Dakota LeighAnn Russell

Angela Michelle Taylor

Jon Michael Williams

OBION

Stevie Brooke Mers

PERRY

Sandra Marie Dicks

SHELBY

Ian Jose' Bibiloni

Nicholas Jordan Blankenship

Issac James

Brandon Tyler Maxwell

Michael Hoang Nguyen

TIPTON

Theresa Donyelle Allison

Carlye Kay Dixon

WAYNE

Amy Lois Bartlett

Brittany Nikole Bunch

Jessica Gable

Nicholas Caden Grace

WEAKLEY

Tom Eric Jehnzen

Lyndsey Brooke Scott

 JSCC HONOR ROLL SPRING 2017

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BENTON

Lindsey Nicole Baker

Michael Keith Coady

Corina Nicole Hensley

Jearleh Generale Obas

Justin Lee Smothers

Kelsey Jordan Yates

CARROLL

Kallie Cheyenne Berry

Hannah Olivia Boroughs

Jennifer Renee Bratton

Stephanie Marie Brown

Layla Dawn Byrum

James Zach Cagle

Meagan Renee DeLaney

Joshua Cody Douglas

Austin Chase Ezell

Chadwick Heath Futrell

Hunter Lynn Harris

Sara Beth Hayes

Kaitlyn E McAlpin

Jackie F McClain

Hannah Lea McWilliams

Charles Neil Prestwood

Charles Neil Prestwood

Jazzlyn Janae Ray

Michael Ray Rogers

Kelsey Layne Runions

Rachel N Sellers

Heath D Spain

Riley N Toombs

Kasey M White

Amanda Michelle Williams

Danielle Leigh Williams

Kevin Wayne Williams

Kelsey L Wortham

CHESTER

Brianna Gayle Allen

Erin Michelle Barnes

Zackary Jordan Bethune

Jonathan Trey Ervin

Sydney Taylor Frank

Kelsey Lynne Grissom

Haley Cheyenne Hardwick

Morgan Elizabeth Hays

Bayley Madison Holder

CHESTER continued:

Austin Tyler Holman

Dylan Wesley King

William James Lampley

Dustin William Tyler Montgomery

Austin Edward Moore

Amber Shalane Mosley

Jaylan Dewayne Northern

Jared Patrick Page

Christine LaShae' Puckett

Trenity B Puente

Cody Allen Riley

Kendall Anne Shaw

Payton A Wilkinson

CROCKETT

Yulissa Bautista

Makalah Carter Buckner

Hilary Brooke Butler

Yeltsin Chapina

Meraleigh Peyton Holland

Erin Yessenia Juarez

Kevin Scott Kail

Anthony J Merriweather

Joseph Braden Nace

Lauren Breanna Pender

Lionardo Sanchez

Seth Daniel Shewmaker

Kordell Jay Smith

DAVIDSON

Lee Rice

DECATUR

Brett William Bell

Jesse Alan Burns

Morgan Anna Crews

Lacey Leann Hicks

Geovany Jimenez

Jacob Christopher Maness

Tiffani Cheyenne Shea

Kayleigh Morgan Smith

Jase Lee Taylor

Jordan C Tubbs

DICKSON

Leslie Ann Darrow

JSCC HONOR ROLL SPRING 2017

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DYER

Elizabeth Ann Fisher

Allison C Hodge

Kyndal Riddick

Chari A Swift

FAYETTE

Jaleesa Shavon Blade

Kelsey Roxanne Wilson

GIBSON

Reagan Wesley Barnhart

Bethany Carol Lynn Bolin

Kayla Gabrielle Bowie

Seth Everett Brown

Zachary Monroe Case

Lila Marie Cauley

Andrew Tyler Chambers

Andria Marey Cole

Charles Benjamin Coleraine

Madison Paige Ellis

Taina Bronjour Escalera

Carly A Fry

Heather Michelle Frye

Emily Jerene Galvan

Melissa D Goodrich

Alyssa Faith Hartig

Matthew Davis Hawks

Braydon Gregory Hendrix

Baylea Alexandra Holmes

Olivia Langston Hunt

Rachel Nicole Jones

Amanda D Littleton

Lauren Elizabeth Miller

Raquel Taylor Miranda

Austin Eli Moore

Jessica N Paz

Haley Nicole Rainey

Kayla Michelle Reeves

Anna Sison

Kyle Martin Trompower

Mackenna Grace Upchurch

Bailey Anne Vandiver

Brandt Gage Wright

HAMILTON

Austin Zinkann

HARDEMAN

Luis Santiago Ayala

Kamryn Nicole Brown

Kenylsha D Bryant

Lashara Shavay Burkley

Megan Ashley Caicedo

Ethan Scott Grantham

Timothy Landon Lee Harris

Joshua M Kennamore

Michael Brandon Knepp

Rianna V Lewis

Christopher Z Luciano

Keylon D Muex

Andrea Lashae Mullins

Keanna Monee Pirtle

Patric D Stewart

HARDIN

Taylor Brooke Alexander

Bailey Reese Brasher

Jenny Marie Briley

Alyssa Mariah Dilday

Ricki Kay Lynn Ford

Ryan Mitchell Guyer

Tori Ann Haggard

Austin Wade Henson

Makaila Cheyenne Keymon

Dustin Kane Moore

Mickay Vaschelle Qualls

Jefferson Charles Rey

Serenate N Searles

Jordan Luke Sledge

Elizabeth Diane Talley

Delaney Jean Timberman

Ronita D Walker

HAYWOOD

Brooklyn Paige Anderson

John Burton Friedman

Jennifer Marie Hendrix

Amye Ann Pitts

Nakesia Monique Shephard

Leigh Anne Stanley

JSCC HONOR ROLL SPRING 2017

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HENDERSON

Jordan Ray Bartholomew

Adam Clayton Briggs

Timothy Dovone Clark

Martice Daniel Crawford

Drake Daniel Eason

Jacob Alan Ewell

Zachary Robert Haynes

Shanna L Lindsey

Destiny Lanette Moody

Alaina Elizabeth Moore

Jordan L Morris

Jessica Marie Nowell

William Survan Pickering

Eli Tyler Plunk

Dylan Frank Powers

Holly Duncan Pratt

Brandi Sheree Reeves

Caitlin Ashlee Scott

Samuel Paul Shannon

Jacob Randall Thomas

Lyndsey P Tosh

Haven Nicole Trull

Emily Nicole Vinson

Trevor Chase Wood

Lilly M Woods

Trey M Wright

HENRY

Erika N Barlow

Brianna Leigh Houlle

Allie Joy Murphy

Chelsea N Phifer

Holly Nicole Potts

Rachel Gayle Ragan

David Ian Sarnik

Rachel Tioni Silvester

Mikala Cheyenne Spry

LAKE

Joel Tyler Estes

LAUDERDALE

Beau Bradford Simpson

Kolie J Smith

Simonne Janae Snipes

LEWIS

Kenzie Owen

MADISON

Brittany Zinelle Anderson

Samuel Davis Anderson

Isaac H Andrews

Amie Lee Scales Autrey

Crystal Linda Autry

Mark Anthony Bedwell

Matthew Elliot Blackwell

Shelbi Leigh Bond

Cameron D'Anne Briley

Chelsea Lane Brown

Hunter Daniel Brown

Marcus Wayne Brown

Ryan Mitchell Butler

Kimberly Renee Carpenter

Richard Jacob Crosnoe

Yulissa DeLaCerda

Mouhamd Elsebae

Hunter Mckinley Finan

Eric Nicholas Forsythe

Russell E Fowler

Brooke Lauren George

James Jacob Gross

Olivia Grace Hall

Jayda McKenzie Hampton

Christian Carter Hays

Janet Diane Hilliard

Angel Mae Hodgin

Brian Jacob Honey

Haleigh Elizabeth Hooper

Garrett Carson Jeanes

James Edward Johnson

Kalesha Rachelle Jones

Shalanda Denise Jones

Jessica Ellen Kirby

Dylan Alexander Kyle

Shea Elizabeth LaFont

Annabel Leon

Bishop Jones Lewis

Elizabeth E Macon

Hunter Allen Massey

Banks Christian Mayo

Jacob Lee McCord

Abby Leigh McNeal

Michael Patrick Mills

JSCC HONOR ROLL SPRING 2017

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MADISON continued:

Jacob Weston Morford

Jennifer Lynn Nieves

Lauren Marie Nieves

Ryan Joseph Palmatier

Carson Mitchell Parker

Chiquita Lashon Perry

Shainia Danielle Perry

Jessica Lynn Pittman

Andrew Christopher Pope

Naydelin Ramirez-Gonzalez

Desiree Ransom

Kaylee Renae Riddle

Cheterra Nicole Rogers

Julie Amanda Rouse

Joshua Bryant Shuford

Allison Taylor Smith

Mia Kayley Spivey

William A Swift

Christina Leigh Tall

Zachary Chase Taylor

Nicholas ONeil Teague

Anna June Thompson

Blake Martin Tims

Shelby M Tisdale

Hayden L Towater

Kayla Jordan Vaughn

Jesse A Williamson

Taylor Nicole Willis

Haley Nicole Worsham

Sarah Janine Yelverton

MAURY

Joshua Avery Frantz

McNAIRY

Tina Bailey Bennett

Brandon Kyle Brown

Jacob Ryan Cox

Kendall Shae Dickerson

Zachary Alan Howell

Sarah Elizabeth Hurst

Caleb Tate Kennedy

William Homer Lescheck

Landon Troy McAfee

Anna Marie Moore

Megan Nichole Morris

Haven D Phelps

Krista D Ray

Joshua Lee Shelby

Lauren Elizabeth Steele

Emily Katherine Surratt

MONTGOMERY

Kayla Renee Bradley

Michelle Amber Donner

Lucas W Veltri

OBION

Kristian Alisha Davis

Bethany N Workman

PERRY

William Blake Qualls

SHELBY

Sadler Allen Goodwin

Marcus Andrew Lytle

Annamarie B Pugh

WAYNE

Jerrica Katline Hicks

WEAKLEY

Brennen Zachary Cobb

Denise Rae Cook

Audrey Louise Grooms

Jeffery Lynn Hampton

Starr Anne Petersen

Lawson Michael Roberts

WHITE

Darin Reed Cole

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Nadia Petrova as Nando Petrova ;; Adam Lambert

Olivia (Liv) Parker as Oliver (Oli) Parker ;; Toby Regbo

Lucas (Luke) Parker as Luana (Lua) Parker ;; Gabriella Wilde

Meredith Fell as Maison Fell ;; Mark Ruffalo

TEEN WOLF ;; 68

Scott McCall as Sarah McCall ;; Chloe Bennet

Stiles Stilinski as Stella Stilinki;; Lily Collins

Allison Argent as Allen Argent ;; Ezra Miller

Kira Yukimura as Keiran Yukimura ;; Ki Hong Lee

Malia Tate/Hale as Malikai Tate/Hale ;; Evan Peters

Liam Dunbar as Lia Dunbar ;; Chloe Grace Moretz

Peter Hale as Pietra Hale ;; Lena Headey

Jackson Whittemore as Jackie Whittemore ;; Lyndsy Fonseca

Derek Hale as Diana Hale ;; Meghan Ory

Lydia Martin as Lucas Martin ;; Chase Crawford

Isaac Lahey as Izzie (Isabelle) Lahey ;; Imogen Potts

Sheriff Stilinski as Sheriff Stilinski ;; Elizabeth Reaser

Melissa McCall as Malcom McCall ;; Orlando Bloom

Chris Argent as Christina Argent ;; Elizabeth Banks

Aiden and Ethan Carver as Amelia and Emily Carver ;; Kathryn and Megan Prescott

Kate Argent as Kane Argent ;; Mike Vogel

Cora Hale as Cale Hale ;; Matt Lanter

Erica Reyes as Eric Reyes ;; Diego Boneta

Mason Daehler as Madison Daehler ;; Kaya Scodelario

Venon Boyd as Veronica Boyd ;; Samantha Logan

Deputy Jordan Parrish as Deputy Jordan Parrish ;; Dianna Agron

Meredith Walker as Seward Walker ;; Robert Sheehan

Dr. Alan Deaton as Dra. Alana Deaton ;; Tessa Thompson

Danny Mahealani as Danielle (Danny) Mahealani ;; Elizabeth Olsen

Gerard Argent as Grace Argent ;; Meryl Streep

Victoria Argent as Victor Argent ;; Channing Tatum

Jennifer Blake as Jonathan Blake ;; Sebastian Stand

Theo Raeken as Thea Raeken ;; Ashley Benson

Deucalion as Deucalion ;; Angelina Jolie

Kali as Kaio ;; Theo James

Rafael McCall as Rafaela McCall ;; Gal Gadot

Hayden Romero as Hayden Romero ;; Grant Gustin

Tracy Stewart as Troy Stewart ;; Josh Hutcherson

THE ORIGINALS ;; 64

Elijah Mikaleson as Elise Mikaelson ;; Anne Hathaway

Niklaus Mikaelson as Nikole Mikaelson ;; Amber Heard

Rebekah Mikaleson as Robert Mikaelson ;; Chris Hemsworth

Freya Mikaelson as Frey Mikaelson ;; Douglas Booth

Hayley Marshall as Harley Marshall ;; Jared Padalecki

Kol Mikaelson as Kai Mikaelson ;; Eiza Gonzales and Skyler Samuels

Finn Mikaleson as Fernanda Mikaleson ;; Lauren Cohan

Camile O'Connell as Cameron ;; Sam Caflin

Davina Claire as David Claire ;; Robbie Amell

Joshua (Josh) Rosza as Joanna (Jo) Rosza ;; Caitlin Stasey

Marcel Gerard as Marcela Gerard ;; Ashley Madekwe

Vincent Griffith as Violet Griffith ;; Danai Gurira

Sophie Deveraux as Sam Deveraux ;; Gregg Sulkin

Thierry Vanchure as Thereza Vanchure ;; Alexandra Daddario

Diego as Diana ;; Normani Kordei

Gia as Gio ;; Kit Harington

Esther Mikaelson as Ethan Mikaelson ;; Nicolaj Coster

Mikael Mikaelson as Mikaela Mikaelson ;; Nicole Kidman

Hope Mikaelson as Hunter Mikaelson ;; Augusto Maturo

Aurora De Martel as Aaron De Martel ;; Zac Efron

Tristan De Martel as Trisha De Martel ;; Amy Adams

Lucien Castle as Lucia Castle ;; Margot Robbie

Aya Al-Rashid as Ay Al-Rashid ;; Jesse Williams

Kieran O'Connell as Kendra O'Connell ;; Brooke Shields

Jackson Kenner as Jackie Kenner ;; Chyler Leigh

Aiden as Amelia ;; Carlson Young

Oliver as Olivia ;; Natalie Dormer

Celeste Dubois as Celso Dubois ;; Alfred Enoch

Dahlia as Dario ;; Mark Shepard

Ansel as Angel ;; Calista Flockhart

Genevieve as Giovanni ;; Seth Green

Mary Dumas as Maison Dumas ;; Philip Seymour Hoffman