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shraby

(21,946 posts) Tue Nov 6, 2012, 12:16 PM Nov 2012

Guess the people who liked to control what others did then, still like the feeling.

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Amazing how much this 1932 map looks like today's political map. (Original Post) shraby Nov 2012 OP

One or two of those states will go "dank" by the end of the day. tridim Nov 2012 #1

Hell. Isn't a big chunk of TX still dry? Care Acutely Nov 2012 #3

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1. One or two of those states will go "dank" by the end of the day.

Tue Nov 6, 2012, 12:20 PM

Nov 2012

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2. Somewhere on DU about three weeks ago, someone posted a map of the slave states

Tue Nov 6, 2012, 12:45 PM

Nov 2012

from 1860 and compared it to the blue and red states of today. Those maps also were almost identical. Maybe someone can find it an post it here.

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4. Here is the 1860 map showing slave states, states open to slavery and free states.

Tue Nov 6, 2012, 12:56 PM

Nov 2012

http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog10/maps/

Free States and Slave States, before the Civil War

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3. Hell. Isn't a big chunk of TX still dry?

Tue Nov 6, 2012, 12:47 PM

Nov 2012