"Early on for colonists, raccoons become a really malleable and iconic species in terms of their appearance. And they are pretty abundant, so an easily mobilized symbol of America in the colonial imagination. But as time goes on they lose status, and as they lose status an animal that symbolism gets transferred. " Daniel Heath Justice talking about his book Raccoon.
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