Fascinating read-- Red America vs. Blue America: State Maps lllustrate the Difference

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9. it kind of seems like the deep South never really recovered from the Civil War

and/or the areas controlled by Southern Baptists are pretty much intentionally being kept at a disadvantage in terms of practically all reasonable indicators of societal health.

I'm sure if you measure the right things though, it would look favorable for those areas...like percentage of people who take the Bible literally, or places where people are most effectively racially segregated...favorable, that is, from the "conservative" point of view. The occupants of these areas largely don't care about education, science, and socialistic healthcare...I doubt these type of maps with an obvious liberal bias would resonate with them at all.