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* Colonel Harland David Sanders may very well be ''the'' literal [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Southern Fried Genius]]. Along with his "secret recipe", his use of pressure frying to cook chicken more quickly and crisply as opposed to pan frying it are one of the reasons why his KFC restaurant chain was so successful.
* Quite a few of the United States' Founding Fathers were from Virginia.
** The Founding Fathers' genius embraced such diverse disciplines as clockmaking, gunsmithing, architecture, legal drafting, theology [[And Zoidberg|and wine appreciation]]... ''[[Serial Escalation|and that was just]] [[Thomas Jefferson]].'' No wonder that when [[John F. Kennedy]] hosted a gathering of [[Nobel Prize]] winners, he said, "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
* Robert E. Lee was a professor at West Point before the American Civil War and went on to become President of what is now Washington and Lee College after.
* Let's not forget about Leland, Mississippi's favorite son, [[Jim Henson]].
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