Thursday, November 11, 2004

Red state, blue state: Slave state, free state

If you came here looking for my usual round-up of info regarding vote theft, scroll down or go here.

Before you scurry thither, consider once more the "red/blue" dichotomy which currently confounds us. I've suggested that we replace the color-coding with the terms "Leech state" and "Producer state." (The Daily Howler offers data supportive of this idea.) But now we have another view of the split -- slave and free. This map gives us a disturbing comparison. Did the civil war ever truly end?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Maybe it's time to break up this unholy union of blue states and red states. Maybe it's time to admit that the North actually lost the Civil War since the outcome was to be shackled to the South. Imagine a future where the two coasts and the great lakes states could be a modern industialized democracy and the south could be the mono-ethnic agrarian theocracy they have always wanted to be (economically and politically equivalent to third world country). Here's someone from a red state who also thinks this would be a good idea http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=5652. My question--how do we get this started and where do we sign up?