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Cretaceous period is from 143 to 66 millions ago.
sauce https://starkeycomics.com/2021/06/11/how-a-coastline-100-million-years-ago-influences-modern-election-results-in-alabama/
Kyzyl
"Geography is destiny"
taez555
Someone on Fox News is about to rant about how the Cretaceous Period was DEI.
softspokensatan
neat
pandagrrl
also noting that very light colored Winston county in the Slave Population map... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Winston
Clockworkdancerobot
what stretch is the one they let the poor people's sewer system flow back into their yards and homes?
ragingzealot
This is great at showing correlation, but no evidence of causation is provided.
ps238principal
Well, what did blacks and fertile farmland have to do with each other in our nation's Southern states' history before, oh let's just pick a year, 1865?
dronir
There's an implied "leads to" between each picture, though I'd maybe soften it to "contributes to".
RunawaySpoons
Yeah for sure, the geology was just there, it's what humans did on it that *caused* the results.
Kyzyl
Soil is dependent on the rock layers beneath it.
Agriculture is dependent on soil
For a while we had an agriculture system that treated human beings a property, and that system thrived in a particular soil type.
Later that population stayed in much the same places.
Lots of election stuff is dependent on the past treatment of that population.