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In 1936, Franklin Roosevelt's campaign manager made the mistake of describing FDR's Republican opponent, Kansas Governor Alf Landon as coming from "a typical prairie state." Compared to what we have recently heard, this might seem mild language, but it appalled FDR, who wrote ...
... that no part of the country should ever be referred to except with some "laudatory adjective." Had the campaign manager spoken of "one of our splendid prairie states" all would have been well. But "the word 'typical' coming from a New Yorker is meat for the opposition."
Roosevelt carried Kansas in 1936.
