Picking Cotton, picking Presidents

An interesting correlation can be seen in the maps below. The top map shows the recent presedetial election results at a county level (the darker the colour the greater the majority) - blue represents the goodies and red the baddies. The second map shows cotton production in 1860, just before the civil war. Cotton harvest and production was of course dependent on African-American slaves.

An interesting comparison give the 148 years between the data used for the two maps.



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