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1 " he saw in Populism the first glimmerings of some of the great intellectual upheavals of the twentieth century—naturalism, muckraking, and hard-hitting social satire—which would eventually topple the genteel tradition of the nineteenth century. In a peculiar way, Parrington seemed to think, Kansas was one of the birthplaces of literary modernism. "
― Thomas Frank , What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America
2 " Then you begin to give up the very idea of belonging. Suddenly this thing, this belonging,it seems like some long, dirty lie ... and I begin to believe that birthplaces are accidents, that everything is an accident. But if you believe that, where do you go? What do you do? What does anything matter? "
― Zadie Smith
3 " New Hampshire is one of the birthplaces of American freedom and independence - a place with a love and a passion for liberty. "
