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Lewis Dartnell

Better Known

CHAPTER

The Origins of Voting in the US

When you look at a voting map of the Southern states and the USA, much of it, the more rural areas tend to vote Republican. So what are the bits of the South in the US that actually tend to vote Democrats? If you look at where the Democrat voting counties are, you'll notice something very curious about them. They're not scattered randomly across the Southern states. There's a pattern to where people in counties are choosing to vote the Democrats. It's basically invisible what might be causing this on the surface. So it's something beneath the surface and it's 75 million years old.

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