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[Laurence Horn]

At 1:11 PM -0600 2/23/09, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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>A map of de Tocqueville's travels:
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>http://www.tocqueville.org/travel.htm

So he did travel coast to coast!  (I can prove it; I have a song on
my iTunes called "Gulf Coast Highway", in two different covers.  So
it must be a coast.)

LH

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>>  I agree he didn't make it coast to coast but did make it at least as
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>>  west as Michigan.
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>>  For the record, when de Tocqueville visited the US, there was no
>>  "coast to coast" for the country. I don't think he left the eastern
>>  seaboard.
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>>  Barbara Need
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>>  On 21 Feb 2009, at 10:00 AM, Tom Zurinskas wrote:
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>>  > Alexis De Tocqueville toured the USA and marveled at the fact that
>>  > one could go coast to coast speaking one language and be
>>  > understood.  Let's extend that worldwide.
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