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Gee, I didn't know Ohio and Florida had mountain people. How will he win those states? Make no mistake he will have to.



Or Pennsylvania, for that matter.

BTW: Toynbee isn't without his critics: Hugh Trevor-Roper described Toynbee's work as a "Philosophy of Mish-Mash." Peter Geyl described Toynbee's ideological approach as "metaphysical speculations dressed up as history" Walter Kauffman dismissed him as what we would today call a "Pop-Historian" (or, perhaps, media whore) "...Toynbee's huge success is confined to the United States where public opinion is heavily influenced by magazines ..." Critics generally also attacked Toynbee's theory for emphasizing religion over other aspects of life when assessing the big pictures of civilizations, as well as his use of myths and metaphors as being of comparable value to factual data, and... the soundness of his general argument about the rise and fall of civilizations, which may rely too much on a view of religion as a regenerative force. Many critics complained that the conclusions he reached were those of a Christian moralist rather than of a historian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_J._Toynbee