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raccoon

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1. Thanks for posting. This really makes it clear:

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Dec 23, 2016, 06:31 AM

Dec 2016

Or, as the Financial Times's Alan Beattie has put it, Argentina is "what North America might have looked" like "if the South had won the Civil War and gone on to dominate the North."

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The United States might be the next Argentina [View all] Judi Lynn Dec 2016 OP

Thanks for posting. This really makes it clear: raccoon Dec 2016 #1

Beattie's phrasing probably describes Brazil better than it does Argentina. tenorly Dec 2016 #4

This is the norm sab390 Dec 2016 #2

True - but Argentina is somewhere in between. tenorly Dec 2016 #3