On Nov 5, 7:19 am, djhe...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:
> In article <slrnhf5mmp.kgo....@gatekeeper.vic.com>, > David DeLaney <d...@vic.com> wrote:
> >And every time I read about the history of all this, my willing suspension of > >disbelief is jolted into fragments by the repeated appearance of the phrase > >"the powerful butter lobby". 'Say, Senator, that's a nice office you've got > >there. Wouldn't want anyone to GREASE your secretary's SKIDS, knowwhudimean?'
> Oh heck, no, they never threatened bodily harm. Just loss of > votes.
Also, these colored margarine bans were *state* laws, not Federal ones. Thus, they stayed around longer in states with a lot of dairy farmers. Remember that apportionment tends to favor rural areas.
Quadibloc <jsav...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote: > On Nov 5, 7:19 am, djhe...@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote: > > In article <slrnhf5mmp.kgo....@gatekeeper.vic.com>, > > David DeLaney <d...@vic.com> wrote:
> > >And every time I read about the history of all this, my willing suspension > > >of > > >disbelief is jolted into fragments by the repeated appearance of the > > >phrase > > >"the powerful butter lobby". 'Say, Senator, that's a nice office you've > > >got > > >there. Wouldn't want anyone to GREASE your secretary's SKIDS, > > >knowwhudimean?'
> > Oh heck, no, they never threatened bodily harm. Just loss of > > votes.
> Also, these colored margarine bans were *state* laws, not Federal > ones. Thus, they stayed around longer in states with a lot of dairy > farmers. Remember that apportionment tends to favor rural areas.
Apportionment has not favored the rural areas since the mid 60s in the USA (a US Supreme Court decision resulted in a rather extensive rearranging of state legislature districts, especially the upper houses in the 49 states that had them).
In article <1da640c7-7cb4-49df-8b2e-8d9630d1b...@g22g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
Quadibloc <jsav...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote: > Also, these colored margarine bans were *state* laws, not Federal > ones. Thus, they stayed around longer in states with a lot of dairy > farmers. Remember that apportionment tends to favor rural areas.
Wisconsin was one such state 8-)
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