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To: shezza
I do not like that ugly blue line snaking up the Mississippi River. Must be university towns.

Probably concentration of African Americans, like that band running East-West from western GA, through AL to MS. A Southerner would know better than I.

21 posted on 11/08/2004 5:17:40 PM PST by BushMeister ("We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around." --Ronald Reagan)
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To: BushMeister

You are indeed correct about the east-west line through Alabama. That is what is known in state politics as "the black belt" and I don't think it derives from any racial connotation. An Alabama native would know for sure but I think it has to do with soil deposits.


39 posted on 11/08/2004 5:28:32 PM PST by hotshu
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To: BushMeister

You hit the nail on the head.


52 posted on 11/08/2004 5:46:46 PM PST by Renfield (Philosophy chair at the University of Wallamalloo!!)
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