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She stood just inside the door, wadding a black-bordered hand-kerchief in her small gloved hands […]

[…] the “Flatlanders,” coined by native New Englanders who were threatened by unknowns or unwanted invaders from the East. These New Englanders, with a long lineage of family in the area, were not pleased with these strangers, who boldly ...

It wasn’t long before they upped him to Vice President.