{"id":4105,"date":"2018-07-11T02:44:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T02:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/11\/how-presidential-elections-are-impacted-by-a-100-million-year-old-coastline-deep-sea-news\/"},"modified":"2018-07-11T02:44:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T02:44:21","slug":"how-presidential-elections-are-impacted-by-a-100-million-year-old-coastline-deep-sea-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/11\/how-presidential-elections-are-impacted-by-a-100-million-year-old-coastline-deep-sea-news\/","title":{"rendered":"How presidential elections are impacted by a 100 million year old coastline | Deep Sea News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4104 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/namK85.jpeg?resize=625%2C604&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"625\" height=\"604\" data-temp-aztec-id=\"4345ccd1-544b-4573-9d93-b2433b382159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/namK85.jpeg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/namK85.jpeg?resize=300%2C290&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/namK85.jpeg?resize=768%2C742&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/namK85.jpeg?resize=624%2C603&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I may have posted this back when it came out, but if so, it&#8217;s worth posting again. A fascinating example of unusually long-term consequences&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:\" lucidasansunicode\",\"lucidagrande\",sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:4text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; display:inline!important; float:none; text-align:left;\">Hale County in west central Alabama and Bamberg County in southern South Carolina are 450 miles apart.  Both counties have a population of 16,000 of which around 60% are African American.  The median households and per capita incomes are well below their respective state\u2019s median, in Hale nearly $10,000 less.  Both were named after confederate officers\u2013Stephen Fowler Hale and Francis Marion Bamberg.  And although Hale\u2019s county seat is the self-proclaimed Catfish Capitol, pulling catfish out of the Edisto River in Bamberg County is a favorite past time.  These two counties share another unique feature. Amidst a blanket of Republican red both Hale and Bamberg voted primarily Democratic in the 2000, 2004, and again in the 2008 presidential elections.  Indeed, Hale and Bamberg belong to a belt of counties cutting through the deep south\u2013Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina\u2013that have voted over 50% Democratic in recent presidential elections. Why? A 100 million year old coastline.<\/span>..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deepseanews.com\/2012\/06\/how-presidential-elections-are-impacted-by-a-100-million-year-old-coastline\/\">http:\/\/www.deepseanews.com\/2012\/06\/how-presidential-elections-are-impacted-by-a-100-million-year-old-coastline\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may have posted this back when it came out, but if so, it&#8217;s worth posting again. A fascinating example of unusually long-term consequences&#8230; Hale County in west central Alabama and Bamberg County in southern South Carolina are 450 miles apart. Both counties have a population of 16,000 of which around 60% are African American. 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