Auh2orepublican and I would like to “redistrict” the states. ;-D And I live in Chicago so I’d be in the nasty Chicago/Milwaukee/Gary Indiana State.
Poor Illinois, it’s just one big nasty county illegitimately screwing the whole rest of the state.
Of the 3 other most rat counties in the state Brady won Rock Island and barley lost St. Clair (home of East St. Louis) and tiny (and 35% Black) Alexander home of Cairo where Twain called his beloved Mississippi “hateful”.
Brady could have done better in Will and Lake Counties though.
Cairo (pronounced KAY-row) is where the Mississippi River meets the Ohio River, and where Huck and Jim were supposed to have turned NE from their southern journey on their raft (which, counterintuitively, gave them a better chance of escaping to the North whithout Jim being caught and sent back) but fell asleep and later woke up deep in the South. A 35%-black county near Chicago would vote heavily Democrat, but Alexander County is geographically and culturally closer to the State of Mississippi than it is to Cook County, and its white voters are far more Republican than those in Chicagoland.
But I didn’t understand what you said about Mark Twain. Did Twain, while visiting Cairo, call the Mississippi River “hateful”? Or did Huck say that in the novel (because staying on the Mississippi would have meant that Jim would eventually be caught)?