[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.

[Arguendo]

There are still Republican office holders throughout the Northeast.

Very few. There are now no Republican congressmen in New England, and only three (out of 29) in New York. New Hampshire, only recently strongly Republican, is now almost completely run by Democrats. Likewise Virginia has seen a significant shift--if we can't win Fairfax County we probably can't win America.