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Looking at maps like this is fun but it's always an oversimplification. Don't forget the impact of middle west abolitionists in bringing about an end to slavery. John Brown (ref. Harper's Ferry map) came out of Kansas and our first Republican Abe Lincoln was a Kentucky-Indiana-Illinois product. The rural-urban divide seems true on the surface, but many red states have their populations concentrated in very large urban centers: Texas, Florida, Virginia, Missouri, Nevada, Georgia, Ohio, etc.
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