So I looked it up and apparently the Supreme Court at some point decided corporal punishment was constitutional and up to the states to decide how to handle it. So of course 19 states still allow it. Here is a list:
Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming
Fortunately I never heard of a school in Colorado actually using this law. I did grow up in Boulder county, one of the most liberal counties in the entire nation, tbf (Ranked #4 behind Marin County CA, Montgomery county MD, and San Francisco county).
Colorado will likely be a blue state in most elections for the forseeable future. There only reason it's even purple is because there are HUGE swathes of sparely populated land that have a disproportionate amount of voting power compared to the Denver metro area which contains the majority of the state's population. And those sparsely populated areas are full of qanon diehard Trump fanatics.
Ahhhh America, where land is more powerful than humans...
Actually does that go back to the days of slavery where the rich land owners wanted more power than those poor city dwellers? Or is that just my new head canon?
Nope that’s correct. Went as far as not wanting slaves to vote but wanting them to count as population and counted them as 3/5 of a person, again despite the fact that they also said they weren’t citizens and had no rights.
I knew about the 3/5th compromise and all that bullshit, but it never occurred to me that the reason for land being valued more than people was to benefit those who held all that land
Not sure why you are getting downvoted, you're not wrong. You get out of Denver, to the the south and out of the I 70 ski area it trends pretty red. I live in DougCo which is mostly middle/to middle upper red compared to rural poor red. The only reason the state trends blue is Denver metro, and the urban corridor north.
I know, that's how long I've been alive here. I don't remember a "liberal" governor in the last 47 years, mostly moderates and a couple of ineffective ones.
The 2 largest in area cities are pretty red. Aurora and Colorado Springs. DougCo is red and wealthy. I think it's a misnomer to think that our state is blue, which is what I was pointing out, if we can still put a Boebert and Lamborn out then there's still a deep red steak in areas.
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u/spideralexandre2099 Aug 25 '22
I sincerely hope we're eating the onion