[blam]

"Correlates to the electoral map in some places, especially Mississippi and Alabama, with the black vote."

Yup.. I recall seeing that one county in Alabama voted 88% for Algore once.

[lacrew]

That band of blue counties in Alabama includes some of the poorest counties in the nation. These are areas that never rebounded from the great depression. What amazes me is that they consistently vote democrat...they’ve been in poverty for almost 100 years, and they still vote the same way, because of identity politics.