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Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike. They’ve all gone to look for America

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We recently heard the song America written by Paul Simon being talked about on WNYC’s Soundcheck and we noticed a lyric from the forty year old Simon and Garfunkel song:


Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike.
They’ve all gone to look for America.

It struck us that you can really find a microcosm of America in the Garden State. Urban, rural, multi-ethnic, good government, bad government, safe places to live, dangerous places to live, farms, factories, suburbs, cities, cannolis, curries, and more.

So the lyrics are probably more apropos today than forty years ago, since you can just take the Turnpike and find America - good, bad, and ugly. It is one of the things that makes the Garden State great and of course not so great, but that is what makes it the Greatest State Ever.

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