Texas GOP Official, Calls For 'Amicable Divorce' From 'Maggots' Who Voted For Obama

[BostonPirate]

In Texas, European diseases were introduced in the early 1500's, there were Spaniards and Indians all over the place for hundreds of years before the Texas Rangers. It wasn't "just" disease.

Kulindahr Is right. I believe the number I read once was 80 percent of the entire continent having died before the mayflower set sail.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas

 

[TX-Beau]

And we know this how? It's strange that after the initial contact the Spanish make no more mention of mass epidemic.

 

[BostonPirate]

I think that the diseases spread among the native americans faster than the europeans moved westward. I think the numbers are estimates based on the abandoned habitats and the bodies found.

Ehh... I saw a thing on this a few years ago on one of the discovery channels or whatever, and It's definitely an estimate. No one was counting heads before we got here.

 

[TX-Beau]

See though when Spain got to New Mexico which had regular contact with not only the plains but the west, their Spanish diseases caused no epidemics. This was in the 1500's long before the US and when the US got there, they cause no epidemics either, when the US tried to wipe out the plains tribes with smallpox that didn't work.

By the time the US comes along, the age of pandemic is hundreds of years over.

 

[Kulindahr]

I think that the diseases spread among the native americans faster than the europeans moved westward. I think the numbers are estimates based on the abandoned habitats and the bodies found.

Ehh... I saw a thing on this a few years ago on one of the discovery channels or whatever, and It's definitely an estimate. No one was counting heads before we got here.

I read a rather scholarly article on it recently, and the authors said they were being conservative in their estimates to hold it to eighty percent -- that it could have been ninety.

And the diseases spread fast enough that by the time Lewis and Clark got to bargaining for horses to cross the Rockies, the tribes they dealt with had been rebounding in population for at least four generations. The article noted that via trade links, infections brought by the Conquistadors would have reached British Columbia within a single generation.

Scary stuff.

 

[Kulindahr]

See though when Spain got to New Mexico which had regular contact with not only the plains but the west, their Spanish diseases caused no epidemics. This was in the 1500's long before the US and when the US got there, they cause no epidemics either, when the US tried to wipe out the plains tribes with smallpox that didn't work.

By the time the US comes along, the age of pandemic is hundreds of years over.

You should check out Guns, Germs, and Steel, which was the book that set people looking in this direction.

 

[DigitalFudge]

So 64,000 votes represents 25,674,681 people?


I'd love to see the look on people's faces who don't even have a clue this is happening if it went through.


Paul Ryan couldn't say no to Government money

Michelle Bachman couldn't say no to Government money

Mittens couldn't say no to government money to balance his budget and Rick Perry surely is not either.


Poor Rednecks, they still haven't come to terms that a black man is the head of their country. Poor dat.