The fundies don't believe in anything over 600-years old.

Very cool article. You learn something new everyday.

and intriguing. It seems we are not only shaped by our environment, but we are shaped by the environment of geological antiquity.

Trav

Rural areas with richer farmland, like the Red River Valley of The North and the upper Mississippi Valley (that mass of blue counties where Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois meet), tend to be more liberal than other rural areas

Love the sciency stuff, especially when you can connect it to real life like that one does......

In America's wang He got the whole head and half of the shaft!

Florida's most populated counties voted overwhelmingly for Obama.

here in Ala.
In other words, lots of black residents who suffered for years under racism and who were denied education, jobs. When I look at the unemployment maps and the poverty maps of Alabama, it follows the same "blue line".

but the edge of the ancient ocean is clearly visible. At my home we have a soil of red clay. 5 minutes away is the sandy soil of that ancient ocean. Right now there is a lot of cotton in that sand.

Never used 'geek' as a verb before, but I like it

ty for posting!

but that crescent sits exactly on the I40/I95 freeway route from Raleigh NC, to Columbia, SC, across I20 to Atlanta, then to Birmingham, and over to Jackson, MS, and then down I55 to New Orleans.

It's possible that the reason people along the freeway voted for Obama is because people who live in areas that get out-of-state visitors are the also the most likely to be introduced to new ideas and concepts, be from other areas themselves, and are the least likely to be able to maintain ignorant prejudices.