More Quarters

I almost feel like apologizing after subjecting people to the bad state jokes from yesterday. The real point of wanting to parody the quarters is to make fun of how states (and people of course) misrepresent themselves to the world. In addition, bringing up those tricky bits of history that makes all the state boosters feel uncomfortable is a good thing too. So rather than keep turning out 5 a day, here's a few of the better ideas I have for these quarters if states wanted to give a truer representation of themselves and their people to the world.

Idaho--a picture of Randy Weaver
Oregon or Washington--a spotted owl nailed to a tree by a logger
New Mexico--a scene of random, meaningless, and violent crime
North Dakota--a blank quarter to represent the topography of the state
Alabama--a picture of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham blowing up
Mississippi--Parchman Farm
South Carolina--a lynching
Tennessee--a picture of three generations, with the grandfather being a monkey
Montana--Unabomber shack
Colorado--a Sand Creek Massacre scene with Chivington impaling a child or something like that
Ohio--the Cuyahoga River on fire
Minnesota--someone with their head in their hands and the line, "Our favorite pastime is depression"
Oklahoma--some white guys forcing Indians to sign away their oil rights
Louisiana--Huey Long taking a bribe
Maryland--a proud looking picture of Spiro Agnew

You get the point. This is what I call representation of a state.