Talk:Nebraska

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Oct 25, 2002

What do you all think of changing the term Midwest to the more appropriate Great Plains? --SR

I think that my biases as an eastern Nebraskan blind me to the fact that many western Nebraskans don't think of themselves as Midwesterners. Let me know what you think of the new version (about to appear). — Toby 11:05 Oct 29, 2002 (UTC)

You're right, Nebraska, like the Dakotas, is really more western than midwestern (except for Omaha).

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Land area is listed as 19,275 km², which clearly is about ten times too small. I can't find the correct figure myself, unfortunately. June 8, 2003.

You seem to be correct, according to this page which I found from link's on nebraska.gov the land area is 76872.4 miles ² (about 199099.5 km²). Correcting the error.

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I would consider Western American culture to have much more to do with ranching, while Midwestern would be associated with a farming culture. In addition, although it does occur in almost every town in Nebraksa, the "Cowboy" look/culture seems to be much more common in Western Nebraksa than the eastern part of the state. I may be showing my high level of geekiness right here, but I think this can be evidenced by such things as high school marching band uniforms. For example, Hastings' high school band has a very Western style to the uniforms, whereas Norfolk's band, a town similar in size, has much more Widwestern/East US style uniforms.

Citations

This article does not have any footnotes. Or maybe it just has an inconsistent style of referencing its sources.

WikiProject:Nebraska proposal

Would you like to help improve the quality of Nebraska-related articles? If so, reply on my talk page; I'd like to see if there is any interest in creating WikiProject:Nebraska. –Swid 16:08, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

"More miles of river than any other state"

A sentence was just added that claims that Nebraska has more miles of river than any other state. The majority of Google hits for that phrase seem to agree, but this title appears to be additionally claimed by Alaska and Pennsylvania [1] [2], and Idaho [3]. Perhaps a more reasonable statement is that Nebraska claims to have more miles of river than any other state [4]. In any case it would be good to get some figures: How many miles of river does Nebraska have? Maybe it would be possible to make a list of U.S. states by number of miles of river. —Bkell (talk) 18:20, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

New Sports section added to updated Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. states format

The Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. states format has been updated to include a new Sports section, that covers collegiate sports, amateur sports, and non-team sports (such as hunting and fishing). Please feel free to add this new heading, and supply information about sports in Nebraska. Please see South_carolina#Sports_in_South_Carolina as an example. NorCalHistory 13:26, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

GA Fail

Sorry, but this has a lot of obvious flaws in it.

• Lack of inline references, i counted 5
• Them 5 references aren't formatted correctly, please check {{cite web}}
• Article has a terrible layout, everything is bunched up
• A lot of one sentence paragraphs
• Bureau of Economic Analysis, external link in the middle of text
• The last 1/3 of the article is filled with lists
• Trivia, remove it or incorperate it into the body
• Expand the lead and split it into two paragraphs

Once these issues are addressed i advise you to go for a peer review then attempt GA again. Good-luck M3tal H3ad 03:48, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Rose, NE

United States Numbered Highways mentions Rose, Nebraska, and Google Maps agrees that it exists, with ZIP code 68714, but we have no article on it. I'm not sure what kind of settlement it is. Anyone more local know? -- Beland 00:48, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

It's an unincorporated community in the Sandhills. I've driven through it several times; it's nothing more than a post office, one-room school, and a bar. If you want to start an article on it, I'll look up the Census Bureau data for the relevant CB blocks that make up Rose. – Swid ^{(talk | edits)} 04:25, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

"Unicameral"

this article does not say wrather or not the Legislature is modeled after the U.S. Senate or the House of Representatives

thats because its not modeled after either. Its a unicameral "is the practice of having only one legislative or parliamentary chamber. Many countries with unicameral legislatures are often small and homogeneous unitary states and consider an upper house or second chamber unnecessary. " --Xiahou 00:12, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Translation into Chinese Wikipedia

The 05:38, 20 March 2008 Lord of Haha version of this article is translated into the Chinese Wikipedia.--Philopp (talk) 15:23, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Etymology of "Nebraska"

The previous etymology discussion cited Koontz but did not faithfully present his argument, which is that the name is likely Otoe/Ioway, but could be from a Dhegihan language, such as Omaha. I added the actual words in question, along with the pronunciations, and kept the citation to Koontz. Balshan (talk) 06:13, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Center of Population

This article lists the center of Population of Nebraska as in Shelby. This is evidenced by the citation to the government census website. Althougth this article refereces the website correctly, Shelby is clearly not the center of population. As the population of the state is around 1.7M, it is shown that over half of the people live in Douglas, Sarpy, Lancaster, Dodge, and Washington counties. All of these counties are east of Shelby, so the census data is clearly wrong. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.170.102.55 (talk) 03:51, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Greetings!

I do not know much about this state to be honest, but what i can say is that this article needs more information, most likely needs to be checked for grammar/spelling, and needs more citations. Poor Nebraska, even its wikipedia page is a bit dull. Misortie (talk) 15:48, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Oto & Omaha pronunciations

These seem dubious. I rather doubt the Omaha has an el sound. Do we have a ref?

William Bright, Native American placenames of the United States, 2007:320, has Omaha /nĩ braska/ and Oto /nĩ bráθge/. kwami (talk) 20:12, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

The pronunciations given by Bright are from the Otoe language, which has the phoneme /r/ with [l] as an allophone. The /bráska/ pronunciation may be from another Dhegiha language; also, some historical Siouan linguists use /r/ to refer to all the descendants of proto-Siouan /r/, regardless of their pronunciation in daughter languages. The sounds are all historically related, of course. I am a linguist who has worked with Omaha and Ponca texts and speakers for years. In fact, Omaha does not have an [l] in the same way as English; it has a velarised lateral with interdental-approximant release, which in IPA we could render [ɫ͡ð], but it's probably simpler to call it [l]. For references including Omaha and Ponca phonology, see the following:

Boas, F. (1906). Notes on the Ponka grammar. International Congress of Americanists 15, Quebec, Dussault & Proulx.

Dorsey, J. O. (1890). The egiha language, the speech of the Omaha and Ponka tribes of the Siouan linguistic family of North America Indians. Contributions to North American Ethnology. Washington, D. C., U.S. Government. 6.

Eschenberg-Bad Moccasin, Ardis (2005) The article system of Umoⁿhoⁿ. (SUNY Buffalo dissertation)

Hahn, F. (n.d.). The Ponca language. anonymous typescript in the Gordon H. Marsh Collection in the American Philosophical Society Library, Philadelphia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Balshan (talk • contribs) 10:00, 24 July 2009 (UTC) ++Judicial?==

The quote that Nebraska was only place in the world using electrocution exclusively is untrue. For decades, convicts had their choice of firing squad, hanging, lethal injection, or default to the state's prime method,

Most deny guilt to the bitter end and get the default.68.231.189.108 (talk) 01:10, 29 March 2010 (UTC)