From Pickin' Cotton to Pickin' Presidents

[ClydeR]

The StrangeMaps blog discovered (http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/330-from-pickin-cotton-to-pickin-presidents/) something interesting when they compared the county-level election results for the 2008 presidential race to an historic map of cotton production in the southern states of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Missouri and Virginia. Counties with high cotton production 150 years ago voted for Obama. Other counties in the area voted for McCain. If you overlay the two maps, it's an almost perfect match.

Coincidence?

[Sean of the Thread]

Dipshit

[Drew]

The election is over, please go away.

[Drunken Durfin]

Link to map?

[Gan]

The election is over, please go away.

x2

[diethx]

x3

[ClydeR]

Link to map?

Oops.

http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/330-from-pickin-cotton-to-pickin-presidents

[ClydeR]

The election is over, please go away.

Dear Drewster,

We conservatives aren't going anywhere.

Your friend,

Clyde

[Daniel]

This is actually fairly interesting. It would be interesting to see this done for prior elections and controlled for voter turn out.

[Proxy]

The StrangeMaps blog discovered (http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/330-from-pickin-cotton-to-pickin-presidents/) something interesting when they compared the county-level election results for the 2008 presidential race to an historic map of cotton production in the southern states of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Missouri and Virginia. Counties with high cotton production 150 years ago voted for Obama. Other counties in the area voted for McCain. If you overlay the two maps, it's an almost perfect match.

Coincidence?

I could stand to hear more. Yes???

[BriarFox]

Why are you surprised by this? Cotton production was labor-intensive and relied heavily on the slave trade to provide that labor. After those slaves were freed, they tended to stay in the same general area (as low-income and poorly educated people usually do) and produced a large black population that remains in those places to this day. Something like 90% of blacks voted for Obama. The correlation's pretty obvious.

[ClydeR]

Why are you surprised by this? Cotton production was labor-intensive and relied heavily on the slave trade to provide that labor. After those slaves were freed, they tended to stay in the same general area (as low-income and poorly educated people usually do) and produced a large black population that remains in those places to this day. Something like 90% of blacks voted for Obama. The correlation's pretty obvious.

That was concise, insightful and convincing. Still, when you consider that more than half of the black population in the United States (http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/c2kbr01-5.pdf) lives in the South and that the South has the largest black population per capita of any region of the country, you have to wonder how it was that Obama did so poorly in the South. As a matter of fact, with few exceptions Obama did poorly in states with very large per capita black populations and in states with very small per capita black populations. He did best in states with per capita black populations that were closer to the national average.

[Sean of the Thread]

Rofl I'm dying to know who ClydeR's other PC name is.

This is comedy gold.

[Drunken Durfin]

Rofl I'm dying to know who ClydeR's other PC name is.


Parkbandit

[Parkbandit]

Parkbandit


You are an idiot. It's obviously a liberal trying to masquerade as a far right conservative.

It was funny the first week or so.. now it's just pathetic and sad.

[Keller]

now it's just pathetic and sad.

That's not a convincing case it's not you.

:welcome:

[Tea & Strumpets]

I wish someone would throw the bitch into a live volcano. I also wish it would kill itself. That's totally within policy since ClydeR is such an obvious fictional character, so FU moderators!

Seriously, the person behind ClydeR is a retard (no offense any retards reading this).

[Sean of the Thread]

durrrr I don't get it durrrrr

[Tea & Strumpets]

durrrr I don't get it durrrrr

Try being more politically correct, like I was.

[Sean of the Thread]

<drool>

Huuuhhh? Durrr.