How a 100-Million-Year-Old Coastline Still Shapes Alabama’s Black Belt Today
by ThatAvidPandaBear
How a 100-Million-Year-Old Coastline Still Shapes Alabama’s Black Belt Today
by ThatAvidPandaBear
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well, damn, TIL. that is interesting.
I would like some explanation why this happening tho…
Source: https://starkeycomics.com/2021/06/11/how-a-coastline-100-million-years-ago-influences-modern-election-results-in-alabama/
very interestingasfuck
Same story in Mississippi in the delta.
“Damn those liberal dinosaurs!”
Conclusion, dinosaurs cause Democrats
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I looked this up to see if it’s legit and apparently the same geological formation (called the Selma Group) runs through Mississippi, Georgia, and into the Carolinas, and you see the exact same demographic and voting patterns along it in those states too. This isn’t just an Alabama thing, it’s a whole belt across the Deep South shaped by one ancient sea.
What does the rest of the state love billionaires so much?
The size of the Space Shuttle rocket boosters were limited by the with of a horses ass.
It’s the same in Mississippi with the Black Belt and ancient ocean up what’s now the Mississippi River!
Ots called the “Black Belt.”
Looks like Cretaceous Sediments tend to vote liberal
The Cretaceous period was woke!
The upper right and lower left pictures should be swapped. This reads like dontdeadopeninside. Fascinating though.
Antebellum slavery’s long term effects.
Everyone knows this is the sort of thing Critical Race Theory is about, right?