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Lauren Caitlin Upton

Miss Teen South Carolina answers a beauty pageant question about American ignorance by showing off some of her own.

Watch as Miss Upton attempts to answer the following: "Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can’t locate the United States on a world map. Why do you think this is?"

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