Life is unfair. This is what I say to people from Red states who express jealous umbrage about my recent piece “Death Of The Last Triceratops: The ESG Culture Wars In Wyoming.” In it I explain how economic rationality triumphed over a political ideology which is good for fund raising but bad for a state’s citizens’ economic interests. I also provide a useful tutorial on the Triceratops, the dinosaur that could take down Tyrannosaurus Rex 🦖 in a fight. Yet people say, “Why devote a whole piece to the smallest state in the Union with a population that is 0.17 percent of the country? And, hey, we have a state dinosaur as well!”

These are legitimate points and deserve to be addressed. I will do so in an interactive way that engages the reader by challenging him or her to up their game on what is being said in other Red states where there is an onslaught of non-sensensical bills and resolutions in the bizarre and self-harming anti-ESG crusade for fighting the Wraith of Wokeness.

We are going to do this as a multiple choice quiz. Below are 10 quotes taken from 13 Red states. You need to pick the state where the quote comes from. Here’s a hint. Only 10 of the states are represented. Pretty obvious about one of the missing three. You will have to figure out the other two.

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These are the states and their dinosaur (or fossil if no state dinosaur): Arkansas (Arkansaurus fridayi), Arizona (Sonorasaurus), Florida (None 😥), Idaho ( Oryctodromeus), Indiana (Mastodon), Kansas (Silvisaurus Condrayi), Nebraska (Archidiskodon imperator or Mammoth), Ohio (Isotelus), North Dakota (Teredo Petrified Wood), South Dakota (Triceratops Horridus), Texas (Sauroposeidon), West Virginia (Megalonyx jeffersonii), and Wyoming (you already know which it is). I am puzzled why South Dakota went for the fossil in 1988, leaving the dinosaur option for Wyoming in 1994 but this will require further research for another piece. Odd goes with odd.

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