Jan 16, 2009 4:48pm

Former Plantation Areas Vote Blue

As our country prepares to swear-in its first African-American president, our Robert Krulwich noticed an interesting pattern related to voters who helped put Barack Obama in the White House. He recently dug deeper into the red and blue voting blocks across the Southern states and found that former plantation areas vote Democratic.

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great demographics story. thanks. that’s some real journalism right there!

Posted by: Paul | January 16, 2009, 6:18 pm 6:18 pm

Thank the lord these folks were not disenfranchised, as they have been in the past.

Posted by: LYNDA in CT | January 18, 2009, 10:13 am 10:13 am

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