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Thursday, June 27, 2024

Hoosier-ana

"Indiana is cynical precinct politics and exciting high school basketball, the Ku Klux Klan and the easygoing, good life of James Whitcomb Riley and Booth Tarkington, Bill Vukovich roaring around the oval track at the Speedway and farmers hanging around the town square on Saturday, and a dash of Gene Debs' socialism."
Irving Leibowitz, "My Indiana," published in 1964

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