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  • "Red states" that supported President Bush also supported slavery

    11/15/2004 11:19:28 AM PST · by Tumbleweed_Connection · 145 replies · 3,388+ views
    News Target ^ | November 15, 2004
    *In case it's hard to read, on the Pre-Civil War Map, the red areas were slave states and the brown areas were territories open to slavery, while the green areas were free states and territories. *These distinctions eerily correspond to the red states vs. blue states on the 2004 Election Map ~~ i.e., the blue (Kerry) states correspond to the pre-civil-war free states and territories, while the red (Bush) states correspond to what were the slave states and territories. *To me, the images (and subsequent comments) simply point out that we as a country cannot, or refuse to, face difficult...
  • ABC's Simpson: Bush Win Means Public "Not Bright," Rush "Scary"

    11/09/2004 5:53:29 PM PST · by Tumbleweed_Connection · 152 replies · 9,420+ views
    MRC ^ | 11/9/04
    ABC News correspondent Carole Simpson, who through 2003 served as the anchor of World News Tonight on Sunday and who now travels the country for ABC News to talk to high schoolers about how to consume news, lashed out at how the election results reflect the triumph of the "stupid" and how the red/blue maps match the slave versus free states. She opined at a National Press Club forum shown live Monday night on C-SPAN: "I look at the election, and I'm going, 'Well, of course our kids are not bright about these things because their parents aren't.'" She also...