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Senator Bob Corker had just gotten out of a hot-yoga session with his wife on a Sunday morning in 2017 when his phone started blowing up. President Donald Trump was tweeting about him, falsely claiming that the Tennessee Republican supported the Iran deal (he did not) and that he had begged Trump for a reelection endorsement (Corker says he never did such a thing). I got to my house, and I was dripping wet, standing in my closet, getting undressed to go jump in the shower, Corker told me recently from his office in Chattanooga. He typed out a response: Its a shame the White House has become an adult day care center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning. Corker sent it to a couple members of his staffNo public officials should ever send their own tweets, he sayswhom he expected to talk him down. No, its too good, they told him. Were going to let it go. The comment has now been retweeted nearly 148,000 times.

Corkers tweet seemed to resonate because it stated plainly something that few Republicans were willing to say out loud at the time: The country was being run by someone who regularly broadcasted false information, seemingly without forethought or input from his staff. But Corker, who left office in 2019, gets frustrated by the focus on this kind of dramatic episode. I spend not one second of my day thinking about any of those things. Okay? Not one second, he said. Its such an irrelevant part of our life.

Still, he is also starting to recognize that his legacy as a United States senatorand as mayor of Chattanooga, where he got his start in elective officewas defined not just by the legislation he passed or his work as the chair of the Foreign Relations Committee but by his willingness to call out racism and moral failings in his own party. Corker still believes in what he sees as the core mission of the Republican Party: to promote free enterprise, fight for equal opportunity for everyone, and protect citizens safety. But its not clear where a person like him fits in todays version of the GOP. In 2020, Corker didnt vote for Trump, but he also couldnt bring himself to support Joe Biden. He cast his ballot for a Republican senator who, Corker believes, has no desire to be president. (He wouldnt say which oneeven his wife doesnt know.) That ethos is hard to find in Washington, but Corker still believes its worth pursuing.

Our conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.

Emma Green: Lets start with some ancient history. In 2006, you were running for Senate, and the Republican National Committee financed an infamous ad about your opponent, Harold Ford Jr. (The ad showed fake man on the streetstyle interviews, including one with a scantily dressed white woman who declares, I met Harold at the Playboy party!) At the time, you said, We dont want this. We want it pulled, and it was gone in a few days.

The ad seems to be an early sign of where the Republican Party might have been headed. Were there elements at that time in the national leadership of the party who might have been thinking, How do we mobilize against the Black opponent of the white front-runner in Tennessee?

Bob Corker: Youre maybe overthinking what actually happened. Probably the type of person who thought up that ad was some political operative or some pollster. Matter of fact, I had very tough conversations with the entity that ran that ad.

Green: What were those conversations like?

Corker: Oh, it just cratered us. We were at plus-six in the race, and it took us to minus-four over seven days. The ad came out on a Friday night, and it ran throughout the weekend, but you cant pull it down. And we couldnt talk directly with the RNC, because it was illegal. The ad was constantly on the airWolf Blitzer and Chris Matthews. Every outlet in the country was talking about it.

And it painted me. I mean, how did I evolve to the public arena? I saw that we had poverty in our inner city and people who werent able to live in decent housing. I led the creation of a nonprofit that helped 10,000 people here in our community have decent, fit, and affordable housing. Predominantly, they were African Americans. That was my history. So I come to this race. People didnt differentiate between me and the RNC. They did so much damage to us and hurt me personally. People who didnt know me thought I was a part of that.

Green: Was your criticism that the ad was strategically unwise? Or was there a bigger-picture conversation about, Who are we as a party, and what kind of message are we trying to send?

Corker: When youre 30 days or three weeks away from a nationalized election, youre not thinking at that moment about what this says about us as a party. Youre livid over what people have done to you in the election in the name of helping you.

Ill fast-forward to an event that, to me, is more indicative. When I ran for Senate in 2006, we had a Democratic governor, and the election was very close. We were a mixed state. West Tennessee was Democratic. Look at what happened when President Obama was elected. Look at west Tennessee today. To me, thats a little more indicative of how race possibly affected the state of Tennessee.

Green: Say a little bit more about that. You felt, even at the time when President Obama was running in 2008, that there might be political changes happening?

Corker: We were in the height of a financial-system breakdown. I was highly involved, as a young senator, in shaping the future of the automobile industry. So, no, Im not thinking about that at the time. What Im reflecting upon is that by 2010, Tennessee had become a solidly red state. Obviously, people in our state railed against President Obamas policies and health-care bill. But there was certainly a turn in our state to bright red from being purple just a few years earlier.

Can I say that race had nothing to do with that? I dont think that I can.

Green: In the period youre pointing to2008, 2010, the Tea Party surgethere was a turn within the Republican base. At the time, did you look around and say, Theres something going on in my party?

Corker: I mean, obviously, I was very aware. During the Tea Party period of time, I did 66 town-hall meetings across our state. I remember walking into the Loudon High School auditorium. Town-hall meetings typically are not particularly interesting. But there were over a thousand people there with placards. They were angryat Republicans, too. I was very concerned about where we were going fiscally as a nation, but I was unaligned with them because I was from Washington, and I didnt say the red-meat things because I dont believe them. Ive never been able to say those kinds of things. I cannot bash the other side of the aisle. Ive just never been able to bash a Democrat because theyre a Democrat.

The Tea Partythey liked me. They didnt love me.

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Green: When you first saw candidate Trump coming onto the scene a few years later, it seems like you thought, Okay, theres something here that could be potentially useful and productive.

Youre shaking your head.

Corker: There were other candidates I preferred who washed out. I was just amazed at it. But Ive always attempted to be constructive. I remember watching a foreign-policy speech that Trump gave. It was okay. What I tried to do, especially being chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, was to take a few sentences of what he said and applaud those and try to build on thosealmost leave a trail to a better place. Not to flatter him or get in his good graces. But, hopefully, I would be one of the few people saying something positive at that time, and he would read that and think, Yeah, yeah. Sure enough, he called right after that, thanking me for saying something positive.

Green: You talk about the rally in Charlottesville as a defining moment. What were you thinking as you were watching that on television and the press conference that happened afterwards?

Corker: I took a few days to take in everything that happened. I think the rally was on a Saturday. Tuesday at Trump Tower, the president made the comments that he made. I knew I was going to be here in Chattanooga on Thursday, in my hometown.

I got a call early one morning from someone at the White House. I was a recipient of calls from a number of peoplealmost like they were standing in a coat closet in the White House: Corker. You cannot believe what has happened. I received a call from someone well known, probably about 6 a.m. Everybody knows I get up early.

I knew what I was going to do. I thought through the words I was going to use very carefully. I used the words not yet: The president has not yet demonstrated That gives this person the ability to become something different than they were at that time.

Green: In retrospect, we can all recognize that Charlottesville was a turning point in the Trump presidency. But what was it about that moment that made you think, I have to say something?

Corker: I was mayor of a city. I spent my time dealing with issues in our inner city. These were my friends, my fellow citizens, my constituents, the people that I worked with on a daily basis. To have a person who was blatantly dog-whistling to white supremacists was totally unacceptable. Something needed to be said. Not in a way that was a personal attack but to focus on the fact that this person was not rising to the occasion as a president.

Green: In the days leading up to January 6, the two senators from Tennessee were part of the effort to challenge the certification of the Electoral College results. One of those people was your replacement. Did you call them up and say, This is not how we do this?

Corker: I made a statement. I go out of my way to not ever name people. I just dont think thats constructive. But we know from other quarters that it stung. I served for 12 years in the Senate, a year and a half as commissioner of finance, and four years as mayor. I know how receiving calls like that is. Ive tried to not be one of those people. Theyre the senators now, and I am not.

Green: What do you imagine your work ahead will be? Where will your labors be most valuable?

Corker: Ive got a lot of energizing, fun things going in business. But I know, down in here [Points to his chest.], that while I will always continue to love the world of business, there will be some missional thing that will evolve as a part of my life. I dont know what that is yet, but I just know what my DNA is. Its been that way since I was in my late 20s. Ive had the greatest privilege of my life serving publicly. The most rewarding period of time was being mayor of a city, where you touch people in a real way.

Ive earned the right for a period of time to be in this state that Im at. Ive got the freedom to be uncluttered, mind-wise, with all these things that youre talking about.

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Green: I want to ask you about something thats actually more local, and perhaps more symbolic. The once-defunct Walnut Street Bridge, which is now a vibrant pedestrian pathway, is a beautiful symbol of Chattanoogas future. Its also where the Ed Johnson lynching memorial has been built. To me, this really captures the challenge ahead for the city: to thrive and grow and attract people to live here, but also to talk more openly about the history of this place, where lynchings occurred.

This is a really big struggle in the country right nowfiguring out how to work optimistically toward the future, but also to be more open and honest about our past. I think people in your party have struggled with this. What I want to know from you is: Whats the right way forward in this hard moment?

Corker: Just as it relates to the memorial, my wife and I contributed to it. I read about it in the paper, and I signed a check the next day. Thats something that we, as a family, support.

Neither party is addressing the race issue in a manner that represents the greatness of our nation. I think the Democratic Party is doing as much damageor moreon the issue of race today than even some of these subtle but real undertones in the Republican Party that youre speaking of. We should be doing everything we can to give every student of every race and every young person every opportunity possible. But then to say, Were not going to do everything we can to have equal opportunity. Were going to have equal outcomesall that does is exacerbate it, and then youve got white people who feel disenfranchised.

I cant believe whats happening in Atlanta right now. I cannot believe the total lack of concern for allowing the crime issue to be what it is. I dont understand whats happening with these big-city mayors, how they would disrespect their citizenry so much that they would let crime be rampant.

Generally speaking, Black people in our country somehow have had lesser opportunity. Thats what we ought to be focusing on, because thats the future. Thats solving a problem. Thats taking us someplace. Should we be aware of our past? Yes, we should be aware of our past. But some of the things that are happening right now today are not benefiting racial equality. Theyre actually taking us down a hole that leads to a place that is not constructive.

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With the traditionally slow summer news cycle upon us, the dust from the controversial 2020 federal election receding in the rearview mirror, and an evenly divided Senate stymying the Democrats dream of Biden administration accomplishments rivalling Franklin Roosevelts New Deal, its time to bring out the political crystal ball and make some 2022 mid-term predictions.

So, for what its worth, heres the vision: If the Democrats dont seriously trim their planned $6 trillion spending spree, and back away from political and ideological positions that the vast majority of Americans instinctively reject, they will lose control of both House and Senate. It will be 2010 all over again, and Bidens term will end by circling the drain for two years until it is flushed for good in 2024.

To start, the GOP has history on its side. The party in the White House typically loses 27 House seats in the midterms, and in 2020 Republicans unexpectedly pulled to within eight seats of the majority. Along with that momentum, the next election will follow redistricting in key states including Texas, North Carolina and Florida, where Republican-controlled legislatures will have redrawn the lines of crucial House districts. It is highly likely that, even without Democrat overreach, Nancy Pelosi will again be handing over the speakers gavel.

Democrats are also defending 23 seats in the Senate this time around, while Republicans only have to worry about 10, almost all of them in red states.

Potential losses for Democrats include Sen Raphael Warnock in traditionally red Georgia. He won a partial term in the January runoff by only 2 points, attributable in part to the negative press given Trumps allegations of Georgia votefraud. Georgia voters are now more upset about the economic impact of Democrat-encouraged boycotts of the state as retaliation for very unremarkable legislative changes in the states voting laws that Biden called Jim Crow 2.0. A solid majority of US voters see voter ID requirements for polls and absentee ballots as a good thing, recognizing that to do otherwise undermines faith in our democratic system.

Arizona Democrat Mark Kelly also won his first term in November by just 2 points and is considered vulnerable if Republicans pick the right candidate, and Nevadas Senate newbie, Catherine Cortez Masto, may face a formidable foe in Republican State Attorney General Adam Laxalt. In New Hampshire, first-term senator Maggie Hassan is likely to face the scion of a formidable Republican family, Gov. Chris Sununu.

If Republicans hold onto what they have and manage to tip even one senate seat, Biden must either go bi-partisan or go home.

Without the great Satan Donald Trump on the 2022 ballot to motivate the Democrat base, there will be no leftist rallying point. Republican voters, many still fuming over Trumps loss, are already aching for revenge. Without Trump as a whipping boy, the Democrats will be judged on not only what they did but also on what they intended to do.

Independent voters, who decide elections, are mostly center-right. Todays Democrats are speaking the language of the left -- Critical Race Theory, reparations, defunding police departments, a porous southern border, downplaying sharply rising urban shootings and murders, and promoting cancel culture, especially the demotion and denigration of American heroes like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt. Americans of all colors are recoiling from the racist notion, promoted by Democrat support groups like BLM, that whiteness is an original sin that cant be cured, and that Whites are intrinsically oppressors.

But the fatal mistake Democrats are making is unprecedented spending plans that would push the national debt over with the $30 trillion mark. Concern over government spending led to the Tea Party movement and cost Democrats 60 seats and control of the House in the 2010 midterms, and that spending was insignificant by todays standards. Most voters, many of whom lived through the rampant inflation of the 1970s, know Democrats cant suspend the economic law of supply and demand. Annual inflation, which was near zero for years, is now near 6 percent and headed higher. When the current federal cornucopia is finally eaten up by the tax we call inflation, they will know who to blame.

Martin Fey is a member of the Quiet Corner tea Party Patriots.

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When it comes to abandoned things at Disney Parks, there definitely are a few.

From abandoned ideas to fully abandoned theme parks such as Disneys River Country at Disney World, there is a lot to dig into. Although many may associate Japanese Disney Parks with Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea, another theme park was meant to become a Disney Park and when then left to rot.

Nara Dreamland opened in 1961 with a heavy Disneyland influence. The park hoped to become a Disney Park after Kunizo Matsuo, a Japanese businessman & president of the Matsuo Entertainment Company, met with Walt Disney to discuss the attraction. Things were going well during the parks development in terms of creating the park in the eye of Disney; however, Walt and Matsuo would then disagree over the license fees for using the Disney characters, which put an end to the idea of Nara Dreamland becoming a Disney Park.

Nara Dreamland stood looking like Disneyland; however, the park would have no affiliation with the park and company. When Guests would enter Nara Dreamland, it was easy to see where the Disney resemblance was held. The park also had a castle as the weenie (as Walt liked to call it), which looked very similar to Sleeping Beauty Castle. The theme park would also have its own version of a Main Street, a Mad Tea Party-Esque ride, a Jungle Cruise-style boat ride, and a Matterhorn-like attraction.

Take a look at the abandoned state of the park after it closed on naradreamlandthemeparks (@naradreamlandthemepark) Instagram.

Shalanski (@shalanski) posted a photo in front of the Nara Dreamland abandoned castle. The area would have been closed off to Guests when this photo was taken.

One of the best days in Japan so far; snuck into and explored the abandoned Nara Dreamland. No Disney theme park will ever amount.

Below is the Mad Tea Party replica attraction posted by Steve (@steveronin).

Nara Dreamland Japan

The theme park remained open for 45 years, but Nara Dreamland suffered greatly when Tokyo Disneyland was built. Attendance dramatically dropped at the theme park as Guests favored the new Disney-affiliated park over Nara Dreamland. In 2006, the theme park closed its doors for good, and not much was done after. The park would be left to decay for 10 years until 2016, when demolition would finally begin.

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We all love a tea break, but what if you could raise money for an important cause at the same time?

Every year, NHS Charities Together encourages the country to host an afternoon tea party to raise money for healthcare workers, patients and volunteers.

This year, after 15 months of pandemic living that has left few unscathed, a tea party celebrating our tireless NHS heroes seems more important than ever, especially as they continue to battle the Covid crisis and start down the long road to recovery.

The past year has been a tough one for the nation and especially for our amazing NHS staff, who have been working so hard to look after us all, says Nadiya Hussain, who has joined forces with NHS Charities Together to come up with some delicious, easy recipes perfect for the party. The NHS Big Tea is the perfect opportunity for us all to come together with friends and family and raise money to support NHS staff as they keep battling for us.

She adds: What better excuse is there to combine our love of the NHS and baking? It will be great to unite over a cup of tea and a slice of cake or two to show our thanks.

In the time it takes you to brew your morning tea, you can sign up to host a tea party for your friends, family or colleagues on the NHSs birthday, 5 July, here.

So whether youll be raising a cuppa in the office, over Zoom or during a picnic in the park, lets celebrate 73 years of our health service with these delicious recipes from the Bake Off winner.

Chicken, brie, cranberry and pink pepper pithivier

A French classic with a delicious melted centre

(Chris Terry)

A French classic, this beautifully scored, round, puff pastry pie can be filled with all manner of ingredients, sweet or savoury. With such a reliable exterior, the inside is all to play for. Ive filled mine with chicken thats spiced and sweetened with pink peppercorns and cranberries, around a delicious centre of melted brie.

Serves: 6

Prep time: 30 mins, plus chilling | Cook time: 50 mins

Can be assembled up to 1 day in advance and then baked to serve.

Ingredients:

2 x 500g blocks of puff pastry

3 tbsp olive oil

4 cloves of garlic

1 onion

1 tsp salt

4 tbsp pink peppercorns, crushed

300g chicken thighs, cut into cubes

100g dried cranberries

2 egg yolks, lightly beaten

200g brie

Method:

1. Line two baking trays with baking paper.

2. Take the puff pastry blocks and roll them one by one on a floured surface. Roll to a 5mm thickness and cut using a 25cm round, then cut another circle to a 30cm round. Leave both to chill on a tray while you make the filling.

3. Add oil to a non-stick pan. Blitz the garlic and onion to a smooth paste.

4. Add the paste to the hot oil and cook till the mixture is thick and brown this should take about 10 minutes over a medium heat. Now add the salt and peppercorns and mix.

5. Add the chicken along with the cranberries, and mix and cook till you have a dry chicken mix and the chicken is cooked through, which should take around 7 minutes at most. Take off the heat and leave to cool completely.

6. Take the smaller round and lightly brush the edges with egg yolk.

7. Carefully slice off the top and base of the brie, just to make it shorter. Pop the brie in the centre of the round and then add the chicken all around the edge and over the top of the brie, patting it into a mound and avoiding the brushed egg yolk edge.

8. Take the second, larger circle and place on top. Push down over the filling, easing out any air bubbles as you go and sealing all around the edges firmly. Brush the top with the egg yolk and pop into the fridge for 30 minutes.

9. Preheat the oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6 and put a tray in the oven to heat up.

10. Flute the edge using the back of a knife to create a scalloped edge, and score the top. Brush the egg yolk again and bake for 25-30 minutes. If the pastry is looking very dark after 20 minutes, cover loosely with foil and reduce the oven temperature to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Serve straight from the oven.

Ginger and almond florentines

Brandy snap meets biscuit meets toffee

(Chris Terry)

These are delicious to have lying about the house for a sweet treat, but even better wrapped and given away as a present. Laced with chopped crystallised ginger, sliced almonds and a hint of orange zest, theyre finally dipped in chocolate to add to the party in your mouth!

Makes:18

Prep time:25 minutes, plus setting

Cook time:15 minutes

Ingredients:

50g unsalted butter, softened, plus extra for greasing the trays

50g soft brown sugar

50g golden syrup

50g plain flour

75g crystallised ginger, finely chopped

50g sliced almonds

1 orange, zest only

200g dark chocolate

65g white chocolate

Method:

1. Start by preheating the oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Line and very lightly grease three baking trays.

2. To make the florentines (and these are so easy I think you will be making them again), place the butter and sugar in a medium pan along with the golden syrup and heat until the sugar has dissolved and there are no more granules.

3. Take off the heat and add the flour, ginger, almonds and zest and mix to thoroughly combine.

4. Take teaspoons of the mixture and pop six equal mounds on each tray, leaving plenty of room for them to spread. Bake for 8 minutes. As soon as they are light golden in the centre and just slightly darker on the outside, they are ready to take out. They are still fragile when very hot, so will need to rest for about 5 minutes before you even think about moving them.

5. Have a cooling rack ready and gently, using a palette knife, take them one by one to cool on the rack. Once they have cooled completely they are ready to dip.

6. Now, traditionally they have one side covered in chocolate, but that doesnt agree with me where am I supposed to hold it without getting melted chocolate all over my fingers? So I like to half-dip. No messy fingers and I get to taste the florentines two different ways. So, melt the chocolates in separate bowls. Make sure to put the dark chocolate in a bowl deep enough for dipping the florentines.

7. Add the melted white chocolate directly on top of the melted dark chocolate, then use a skewer to create swirls.

8. Take each round and dip half in, then pop out and leave to set on the tray with the baking paper that they baked on initially. Leave the chocolate to set and they are ready to eat!

Mango and coconut yoghurt cake with German buttercream

Traditional Bangladeshi flavours in a cake!

(Chris Terry)

These flavours are as traditional as they get for me. Theyre the flavours I grew up with, though while mango was cooked in curries, dried, or eaten in the sun under the shade of the tree, it was never put in a cake! The same went for coconut. If it wasnt being eaten dry, it was being stewed or eaten early drinking its sweet water and scooping out its young flesh but it was never ever put in a cake. So, lets fix that, and put all that wonderful stuff straight into a cake, shall we?

Serves: 8-10

Prep time: 35 mins, plus chilling | Cook time: 45 mins

Ingredients

For the cake:

Butter, for greasing the tins

50g desiccated coconut

1 mango, peeled and thinly sliced lengthways

400g Greek yoghurt

300g caster sugar

7 medium eggs, lightly beaten

400g self-raising flour

1 tsp baking powder

Pinch of salt

For the German buttercream:

150ml whole milk

100g caster sugar

3 egg yolks

1 tbsp cornflour

350g unsalted butter, at room temperature

tsp vanilla extract

For the decoration:

25g coconut chips or desiccated coconut, toasted

150g mango pulp

To serve:

Greek yoghurt and extra mango pulp

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Line the bases and grease two 20cm deep round cake tins.

2. Toast the coconut in a small pan until it is golden and sprinkle into the bases of the cake tins, making sure to evenly distribute it. Toasting it will enhance the flavour (untoasted coconut tastes no different to the wood-chip shavings I lay out for my rabbit). Add the mango in some sort of orderly fashion, straight on top of the coconut.

3. The cake is an all-in-one method, so really easy. Pop the yoghurt into a large mixing bowl along with the sugar, eggs, flour, baking powder and salt, and mix until you have a smooth, shiny cake batter. Pour the mixture into the tins and tap them a few times on the work surface to level off the top.

4. Bake for 40-45 minutes until golden, and a skewer, when inserted, comes out clean. Take the cakes out and leave in the tins to cool for 15 minutes, then turn out and leave to cool completely.

5. Meanwhile, make the buttercream by adding the milk to a saucepan with the sugar. As soon as it has come to the boil, take off the heat and mix, making sure the sugar has melted.

6. Now add the egg yolks to a bowl with the cornflour and whisk. In a steady stream, pour in the hot milk mixture, making sure to stir all the time.

7. Pour the mixture back into the pan and heat gently until it all thickens into a really thick custard that coats the back of the spoon. Transfer to a large bowl, cover with clingfilm and leave to cool, then chill in the fridge.

8. When chilled, whisk the custard mix, then add a good tablespoon of butter at a time, whisking after each addition. Keep whisking until you have a really stiff, pipeable buttercream. Pop into a piping bag.

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Boston ranked 25th out of the 100 best and worst places for Fourth of July celebrations in the United States.

The Massachusetts capital ranked 40th in affordability, 91st in attractions and activities, 14th in safety and accessibility, 23rd in weather, in a recent WalletHub study.

While Fourth of July celebrations were extremely limited last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year states are a lot more open thanks to our vaccination efforts, WalletHub wrote. Americans are already gearing up for this major holiday, too. The National Retail Federation projects that American households this year will spend a collective $7.5 billion on Fourth of July celebrations.

The top five cities on the list are New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Minneapolis and Atlanta. Boston is the highest ranked city in New England.

WalletHub also featured key findings about Independence Day from the survey which include:

Survey Key Findings

Massachusetts has been deemed the birthplace of the American Revolution and is home to the historic events of the Boston Tea Party to the battle of Lexington and Concord. Despite this, Massachusetts didnt crack the top 10 for fourth of July celebrations and was ranked at 39 in WalletHubs list of the most patriotic states earlier this month.

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