• 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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    16 天前

    not sure where I read it, but it made me see history as something amazing.

    I think it was in response to some 2000s election, and comparing the results with earth’s geological history.

    how an ancient river delta millions of years ago created a fertile crescent in the US south, which was the cultivated using slaves, which brought in a huge slave population, and that area is still overrepresented by the black vote. changing the elections outcome.

    The idea that a river from eons ago is visible in political poll maps is fascinating. Everything is connected.

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      16 天前

      It’s an ancient seashore, and it can be seen in every presidential election map stretching across Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia. The contrast seems most prominent in Alabama.