- so high levels of cotton production = high numbers of slaves = large African-American population in 2008 = votes for Obama
- but a lot of those blue parts of the map correspond to urban areas, which went disproportionately for Obama (so much so that it seems to make more sense to think of…
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That very possibly could have been the intent and perspective of the person who first slapped those two maps...
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Your point about projections is right on. I was actually thinking about looking into the methodology but then I didn’t...
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I’d even settle for a density map of the black population at the time period of the first map. At least that would make...
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I was really really really hoping this was coming.
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