[Magdalen] Voter ID

[Sibyl Smirl]

On 12/28/16 2:01 PM, ME Michaud wrote:
> Ugh.
> Does "Kansas people" mean "white people" in Kansas?

No, it doesn't. I guess you'd say it was people who were born, raised 
and educated in Kansas. There was one black man I remember who had 
what's called a "Century Farm", back in the 1960's.  Really nice guy. 
His daughter still works for the USDA in the county seat.  I don't know 
who lives on the farm, if anybody.  A "Century Farm", which gets honored 
by a Farm Bureau provided metal sign on a gatepost, is one that's been 
in the same family for 100 years.  They're still being added to the 
list, too, when a clock ticks off a hundred years, but then go off when 
one of them gets sold by the third or fourth generation of the family. I 
do know quite a few other black people whose families have been around 
since I can remember (I've been here for 72 years now).  Quite a few 
Indians too, either tribally (Card Carrying Indians) registered or 
unregistered, and you mostly don't notice them as NA unless they tell 
you what fraction they are, or they have an Indian-sounding surname like 
StandingBear.  This was Cherokee land before the Civil War, but the 
Cherokee sold it to the Confederacy for gold (which they got), and after 
the war, the Federals didn't let them have it back, though the 
individuals who had their tribal land allotment stuck around as 
individual landowners.  Quite a few people with Spanish surnames, too, 
but again, they aren't noticeable, and the ones that I know don't speak 
Spanish.  My next-door neighbor is a non-citizen who's been here about 
thirty years, quite legally, and drives about a hundred miles to vote in 
his own country when they have elections (Micronesian or Melanesian 
Republic, the Island of Truk). I don't remember which town their office 
is in.  His son is a Kansas Person (Kansan), and a native-born American 
Citizen.  He could be President some day. The man who lived in that 
house for most of my life was a registered Cherokee (pale-skinned, but 
then a big chunk of Cherokees are that) who left an arm in Germany 
during WWII, came home and won his seat in the Kansas Legislature, which 
he kept until he retired.


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