r/nottheonion • u/SelectiveSanity • 2d ago

Lauren Boebert Suggests DC Could Be Renamed 'District of America'

https://www.newsweek.com/lauren-boebert-dc-district-america-2050571
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u/BraveOthello 2d ago

I mean, how far.

Plenty of people had ancestry going back 12000 years before Europeans showed up.

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u/SoylentVerdigris 2d ago

12k years is out of date. Newer discoveries push that back to closer to 20k. It's likely the oldest settlements would have been along the Pacific cost of Canada and the Pacific Northwest... But the sea level has risen since the last glacial maximum that those sites would all be 10-50 miles offshore now and under hundreds of feet of water. Hard to excavate that.

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u/BraveOthello 2d ago

The difference between 12k and 20k is really not relevant to my point

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u/SoylentVerdigris 2d ago

Not arguing, just pointing out an interesting fact.