When I was in grade school we had a history lesson about the Civil War and Reconstruction. The teacher told us the United States had split apart and then after the war the Southern states had to rejoin the rest of the country. I thought she meant literally split apart. I imagined people using big boards to nail the country back together.
A childhood belief about classes
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the United States were a planet, since I'm from another country.Anon
- I grew up in Hawaii, and was pretty sure that our country, the United States, was the fiftieth stateAnon
- I used to believe that America was one of the states of the United States.— Limor
- I used to believ that "Shooting the Bull" literally meant what it states.— DJ
- i used to think France was in the united states
— TY - I used to think that Los Angeles took up half the United StatesAnon