What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[Rev. Rye]

A map of electoral results by county in the US shows not only the concentration of blue, democraratic voting counties in major cities on either coast,  but also a continuous inland blue belt from mississippi, through Alabama, georgia, north and south carolina.    this blue democratic voting belt is visible not only in the 21st century but for most presidential election back to 1880s.

if you superimpose this part of electoral map on a geological history map of the same area, you will find a close correlation between this inland democratic blue belt with a belt of geologic structures that dates back 100 million years, reflecting a a belt of sedimentary plains formed by debris eroded from appalachian mountains during the age of dinosaurs, when the world sea level was 100-300 meters higher, and most of the low lying parts of the world’s continents today were flooded.  

As it turns out the remnants of these plains form particularly fertile agricultural for cotton growth, leading to development of plantation in antebellum south, and a high concentration of african americans working the plantation as slaves.    After the civil war, despite the demographic movements these areas remain locations of counties with highest percentage of african americans in the US.

So you might say some of the voting patterns seen in the United Stares in the21st century was graven into the rock beneath our feet when dinosaurs still roamed.

Honestly, the fact that they're the Blackest parts of the United States is probably enough to explain why they're so blue. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that, if I were black and had to choose between a party that's blatantly embracing white supremacy and one that isn't, the choice would be pretty obvious.