{"id":529,"date":"2008-11-30T13:32:31","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T20:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=529"},"modified":"2008-11-30T13:32:31","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T20:32:31","slug":"how-soil-type-affected-the-2008-election-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"How soil type affected the 2008 election map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/15\/330-from-pickin-cotton-to-pickin-presidents\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/cotton_mapx500.jpg\" alt=\"cotton map\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/15\/330-from-pickin-cotton-to-pickin-presidents\/\">This map<\/a> shows a strong correlation between 2008 presidential election results (red counties = McCain, blue = Obama) and cotton production in 1860 (each dot = 2,000 bales).<\/p>\n<p>Long story short:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Marine deposits from Upper Cretaceous period form Selma Chalk, which underlies the area in the crescent through Mississippi and Alabama.<\/li>\n<li>That area, and other soils suitable for cotton production, attract plantation owners who concentrate slave labor on the most productive soils growing the most lucrative cash crop, King Cotton.<\/li>\n<li>Despite migrations after emancipation, the areas where cotton was king continue to have a large proportion of African-Americans.<\/li>\n<li>African-Americans voted overwhelmingly for Obama, producing the blue streak through the otherwise red south.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This correlation was <a href=\"http:\/\/cstl-csm.semo.edu\/gathman\/cottonvote.htm\">first noted<\/a> on by <a href=\"http:\/\/cstl-csm.semo.edu\/gathman\/index.htm\">Allen Gathman<\/a>. a genetics professor at Southeast Missouri State University, with further elaboration at <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/vigorousnorth.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/black-belt-how-soil-types-determined.html\">The Vigorous North<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/strangemaps.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/15\/330-from-pickin-cotton-to-pickin-presidents\/\">Strange Maps<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This map shows a strong correlation between 2008 presidential election results (red counties = McCain, blue = Obama) and cotton production in 1860 (each dot = 2,000 bales). Long story short: Marine deposits from Upper Cretaceous period form Selma Chalk, which underlies the area in the crescent through Mississippi and Alabama. That area, and other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=529\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How soil type affected the 2008 election map&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-soil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}