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Slavery, the civil war, states rights, abolitionists, John Brown, Dred Scott. It's all interesting, but is there really a convincing argument to make that all of this stuff or the map above is related to this past election or the current political climate.
The current blue areas are well populated and the red ones are less populated. A state is blue or red largely depending on the dominance of the cities within that state. Illinois is blue--Chicago dominates. Missouri is red. It has two pretty big cities, but a lot of rural area. In addition, both of its big cities are border areas. Therefore, Illinois and Kansas get a lot of blue voters who are connected with the cities of K.C. and St. Louis--see the speck of blue in Kansas and the few specks in S. Illinois in Locobot's map. If these voters were actually in Missouri, it may have been a blue state. What does this have to do with 1860?
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