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First of all, Ohio, Indiana, Alaska and a few more didn't support slavery. West Virgina also became a state specifically because it wanted no part of the Confederate states and slavery.
Mainly though the whole thing is specious and one big non-sequiter. By the same logic we can say that because NYC overwhelmingly supported Kerry then it says something about his supporters because during the Civil War there were race riots that killed overa thousand blacks and there was serious talks of NYC seceding Dom the north. We can say that the Salem Witch trials prove that Kerry supporters are superstitious idiots. It a bunch of malarkey. Everywhere in the world, if you go back far enough in the past, you would find signs of bigotry, intolerance, and paternalism. Its just that in today, in America, that can be found in the northeast.