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Re:U-Haul to Implement Nicotine-Free Hiring Policy by bluedino on Friday January 03, 2020 @11:16AM (#21947189)
Imagine if different areas of the United States still spoke the languages of first-generation immigrants.

You'd have the French, German, Dutch, English, native tribes, Spanish...

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Re:U-Haul to Implement Nicotine-Free Hiring Policy by HarryHirsch on Friday January 03, 2020 @11:47AM (#21947592)
Not the United States of America, but the United States of Austria were actually a serious proposal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_Greater_Austr...

The issue usually isn't ethnic tensions, it's usually disenfranchisement expressing itself through nationalism.

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