RED STATE = SLAVE STATE

[grassfed]

Joe Wilson, Rep SC...

[Taverner]

1. Kind of a jump, dontchya think?

I never knew North Dakota had slaves

[Barack_America]

2. The map's a bit outdated, no?

[JonQ]

3. Oh. My. God. I had no idea slavery was this pervasive in america

Seems only DC and minnesota were able to rid themselves of this insidious practice.

[kiva]

4. Ummm...which presidential race does that

map represent? The date at the bottom says last updated Nov. 03, so not the last couple of elections.

[Island Blue]

5. Check out a map from the 1960

Kennedy vs. Nixon race and tell me quick - who owned slaves? DU gets dumber and dumber every day.

[tammywammy]

6. This is seriously one of the stupidest threads I've ever seen on here

And that's saying a lot.

BTW, here's the map from last Nov.

[T Wolf]

7. To those who criticize this on-target analysis - stop defending the slave states.

If we had let them go, the United States would have become a much better place than it is now.

We would be much more progressive in our social and economic policies without having to cater to the enemy.

See, even then repukes made mistakes.

[RoyGBiv]

9. There is no analysis in this ...

There never is, just some "if only" silliness that does nothing to solve problems.

[kiva]

12. The OP didn't post analysis, just an outdated map

for an unknown presidential election and a map of the Union/Confederacy. Nor is your post particularly analytical - it's a collection of 'what ifs' and assumptions.

[TheKentuckian]

8. WOW (nt)

[BlooInBloo]

10. Yep - the correlation is old and telling.

[SoCalDem]

11. Except that Obama won Florida, NC & VA, didn't he?

and came within a whisker of winning Missouri too..

But I do believe that "historically", the region we know as "the south" has a deeply entrenched racism that is palpable. "New" people moving there and gradually changing the climate is our hope for the future, as well as the die-off of the old folks who never gave it up..