We're now on Day #6 of my daily US states threads in honor of the 250th anniversary of the country.Colorado joined as the 38th state on 8/1/1876. Around a third of the state was acquired from the Louisiana Purchase, and the remainder by the Mexican-American War. Colorado was very sparsely inhabited by non-Native Americans prior to the USA acquiring it.The name Colorado is Spanish for colored red, most likely referring to the sediment heavy Colorado River. Its capital and largest city is Denver. It has a population of 6 million and is approximately 104.2k square miles in size.An early gold rush around Pike's Peak triggered an influx of settlers from 1858 to 1862. The provisional government of Jefferson was established and it eventually became the Colorado Territory. Colorado later became the site of the Sand Creek Massacre, which led to the resignation of Governor Evans. Gold and Silver continued to allow Colorado to experience early growth. The Colorado Coalfield War erupted due to labor disputes in 1903 and lasted for around a year, also resulting in the Ludlow Massacre. More strikes in the 1920's such as the 1920 Streetcar Strike and the 1927 Coal Strike also culminated in another massacre at Columbine Mine. The KKK were even used against striking miners by the mayor of Trinidad, and Colorado was a major stronghold for the KKK in the first half of the 20th century, to the point they had significant control over government in the state. Beginning in the 1940's, Colorado began its shift towards the left end of politics, particularly empowered by the Chicano Movement. It became the first state to loosen abortion restrictions, and among the first states to legalize marijuana and gay marriage. Colorado of today is particularly well known for its tourism, rising immigration levels, and strong economy. The Columbine Shooting in 1999 has since led to a rise of school shootings in the nation inspired by the incident. What do you think of the Centennial State?
Winters get rough up north but at least the mountains shield us from the worst summersOur politicians are braindead
>>18577548Colorado blows. It's stereotyped as being some kind of snowy mountain paradise, but:1. sunny, dry, and hot, dusty as shit2. most of the state isn't mountains3. even the mountains are sunny and warm on winter days4. Denver is awful, think 50f, dry, brown winter days, sun beating down5. The skiing is ok but not as good as everyone thinks, less snow every year4. The mountains are only a small part of the state, everywhere else is high prairie or desert5. the only livable parts (cold, respectable precipitation) are Steamboat, Breckenridge, Telluride, and Silverton, and even then just barelyI got out at the first chance I got and moved to leafistan, which also blows but for different reasonst. Breckenridge
>>18577548When I think of Colorado, I think of hippies, evangelicals, and the air force academy. Nothing else.
>>18577773excuse the samefag. I'll also point out that there are no birch trees in colorado which makes the place suck even morespeaking of trees, Aspen (the town) and Vail also make the 'just barely liveable' list.
>>18577773Denver is at 38N, the latitude isn't that high.
>>18577548DUDEWEED XD
>>18577548The San Luis Valley is the coldest part of the lower 48Some winter days are colder than Antarctica, no joke, went to school in Alamosa.Also really foggy
>>18577789prescisely. At least we get moose and occasional wolves, but then no caribouanother thing that sucks is the only (again, barely) liveable places in Colorado are some of the most expensive towns in the country, maybe in the world. So you're paying tons of money but the product you get sucks
>>18577793>colorado cold>me know, me from alamosalmao
Poor JonBenet.
>>18577773Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho get more real winters than Colorado.
>>18577807Yes. Their winters beat Colorado's, but they're still pretty dry and don't have any big cities, which is another problem.In my ideal world there'd be some enormous metropolis in some well watered cold mountain place that had a metro system (trainsperg)Vancouver and Seattle are close but like with Canada that's a whole new set of problems, not natural but manmade
Next two threads are irrelevant states. See you on the 17th when we get a good one again.
>President Grant signed into law the bill admitting Colorado as the 38th state on August 1, 1876. With three months to go until the presidential election, the new state did not have time to organize a proper electoral system, so the Republican-controlled state legislature voted instead, giving its three electoral votes to Rutherford Hayes. This was the last time a state's presidential electors were chosen by the state legislature instead of the popular vote. Whether Colorado would have went for Hayes or Tilden had the election been done by popular vote is unclear.[9]>There followed 13 years without new states being admitted as Democrats in Congress resisted adding more states in the West that seemed likely to go Republican.
>>18577773Yes we know you hate white people sanchez
>>18577773What are the plains and prairie like?
>>18577994Least white rocky mountain state + full of degenerate druggies and drunks. t. live in Utah and Coloradans are the worse people even more than commiefornians
Isabella Bird’s A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains is an epic account of her travels in frontier Colorado. She was one of those globetrotting Victorian adventuresses, a middle aged dumpy little woman who climbed Long’s Peak in a dress (it was a tough hike when I was young and fit) and rode hundreds of miles solo horseback through the mountains in the dead of winter. She had a fling with a one eyed mountain man who’d gotten his face clawed by a bear. There’s a long history of English eccentrics like her and Oscar Wilde loving the Centennial State. Colorado Springs was noted as a resort for English toffs “taking the waters” and a lot of Brit capital built the railroads and mines.
>Dude weed>Dude South Park>Dude mountains Gay libtard state that wishes it was half as cool as Arizona
CO is extremely beautiful
>>18577994>hot dusty shithole>white???>>18579208they suck too. dry, hot, sunny. They can't grow corn because there isn't enough water, so they grow wheat and ranch cows.>>18577793another look at frigid Alamosa. ase frio o algo
>>18579615https://www.chieftain.com/story/weather/2017/01/07/alamosa-coldest-spot-in-nation/9226236007/>not coldMinus 36 motherfucker
>>18577548>What do you think of the Centennial State?It's half yuppie, half-brown and everything outside of the Denver metro area is basically irrelevant to state-level politics. Gorgeous scenery in the mountains but it's way drier and hotter than most people think it is and the housing situation is abominable.
Colorado has some of the most spectacular railroads in the U.S. Many of them were built as narrow gauge (only three feet between the rails) and some still survive as tourist operations with steam locomotives and wild scenery. There’s a Swiss style cog railway to the top of Pike’s Peak. There’s hundreds of miles of abandoned mountain railroad grades you can drive or bike on. Amtrak’s California Zephyr west of Denver is one of their most scenic routes.
