When I was in school learning about the Civil War, I saw the headlines in the old newspaper about a Divided Nation (Union). I thought that somehow United States had a split in half. After the Civil War, the country magically glued itself back together.
A childhood belief about landscape
others believed things like this
- I used to think that Los Angeles took up half the United StatesAnon
- I used to believe that the United States were a planet, since I'm from another country.Anon
- I thought the Civil War was the Silver War.— Vicki J.
- I grew up in Hawaii, and was pretty sure that our country, the United States, was the fiftieth stateAnon
- I grew up in NY and used to believe that The Dukes Of Hazard took place during the Civil War.Anon
- I used to believe that America was one of the states of the United States.— Limor