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To: Lunatic Fringe

Midwestern FReepers: What's with the geographic pattern of Democratic states that follow the Mississippi River down from Minnesota?


39 posted on 11/03/2004 11:54:33 AM PST by Pyro7480 (Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix.... sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper...)
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To: Lunatic Fringe

counties, not state. My bad.


42 posted on 11/03/2004 11:55:19 AM PST by Pyro7480 (Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix.... sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper...)
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To: Pyro7480

Don't know about further up north, but St. Louis, Memphis, and the Mississippi Delta have large black populations.

Unfortunately, the blacks still seem to vote for the Dems (except for the new conservative blacks, who are in the minority still).


102 posted on 11/03/2004 12:54:16 PM PST by Cedar
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To: Pyro7480

"What's with the geographic pattern of Democratic states that follow the Mississippi River down from Minnesota?"

Connection to water implies more exposure to other cultures and presumably more "openness' or liberalism in a more classic context.


117 posted on 11/03/2004 1:07:01 PM PST by oldcomputerguy
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To: Pyro7480

Generally, from Missouri South, that's Delta which equals high concentrations of Blacks.

In fact, anywhere in the Old Confederacy except South Florida and South Texas, if you see blue, you see blacks (not a racist statement, just reality. I'll wager that with very few exception, every one of thse Blue counties is at least 40-50% black


161 posted on 11/03/2004 2:51:54 PM PST by WillRain ("Might have been the losing side, still not convinced it was the wrong one.")
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