Man, I cringed at that when she said it, too. Did you ever hear about this one from the Miss Teen USA beauty pageant? It was all over the media for weeks.
The answer to South Carolina's question is "Because the US educational system only has maps of the USA in their class rooms, and only a few rare ones have or use world maps at all."
I notice few mentioned how close Hungary is to Turkey, that's because they want to eat it.
