43 - WASHINGTON, Dixy Lee Ray
WASHINGTON!!! My home and native land. This is where I have spent almost all of my life. Years 1-18, 22-24, and 29-present ... home. I tell people I will travel and explore, but forever now Washington will be my home. I feel accepted here. I feel like I am like minded and respectful in the way my home should be. It is filled with beauty, exploration, diversity, and political debate. It is filled with my family and friends that have all helped shaped me over my life, and also not shunned me when I changed my views or became more independent. I love you Washington! Every one of you. Dixy Lee is an interesting person to portray here. She is vocal, brassy, and blunt. She is intelligent and passionate. She is herself above and beyond everything. That is a Washingtonian to me. Washington was the 35th state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. There were many attempts for Washington to permit women voting before the national amendment, but they failed, mostly in issue with the liquor vo...