[Arguendo]

In 2006 and especially 2008, even many of those “vast stretches” went to the Democrats. And the entire Northeast and mid-Atlantic region is not a “small dot.”

[muawiyah]

Not true ~ you had a marginally higher rate of voting in the "small dots". There are still Republican office holders throughout the Northeast.

If the cotton picking machine hadn't been invented in the 1950s this wouldn't have happened.