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The third US state, and one of the original 13 US colonies, New Jersey last had a Republican governor in 1988.

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Many in this former British colony of 1.5 million people—just seven miles from the Venezuelan coast—fear being dragged into a war.

This was a response to the British Crown’s taxation of the colonies without their consent.

He is credited with transforming the former British colony into a wealthy city-state in just a little over 30 years.

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Elon Musk, it would appear, is afflicted with the variant form of anglophilia, touched with imperial nostalgia and misplaced envy, often found among bright young men from the colonies.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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