In the Cretaceous era, the southern coast of the US ran through the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, due to higher sea levels. If you live on this ancient coastline, it’s more likely that you voted for Obama. No, really. The reasons why are fascinating, touching on biology, geology, history and demographics.
That’s pretty amazing.
So it looks like the answer to the “Is it Too Soon to Say Romney has Lost?” thread is, “No, Apparently He’d Already Lost 100 Million Years Ago.”
Talk about grass-root politics.
The Cretaceous, when Democrats Ruled the South
Even the Cretaceous - Tertiary (K-T) boundary remains very distinct, partisan to this day. They can’t find any common ground there at all.
Don’t blame me. I voted Triceratops.
4 more epochs! 4 more epochs!
I take exception to that article…
Brilliant!
Yanno, I wondered if you were foraminifera.
No second term for you, Dinosauria,
!!! Mammallia-Aves 65 Million BC !!!
No, I’m from California 
So you’re Californiminifera?
Actually, it doesn’t completely wash…example, SC is a Republican state. In fact, if you look at the results, the belt mentioned are in all Republican states.
http://www.politico.com/2012-election/map/#/President/2012/
What, exactly, “doesn’t wash”? The article is about a series of Democratic-voting districts in Republican states.
Considering, in the one I looked up, SC…out of 46 counties, 38 of them are primarily black with two of those having the largest cities in the state and yet in SC, the vote in some of those counties, the vote was not democratic but republican. An example, Horry County voted Republican yet is listed in that belt mentioned.
Others:
York
Kershaw
Beaufort
Dorchester
Berkeley
Lexington
Aiken
All of these are in the belt mentioned in that article.
Liz
this must go on a tee shirt!
my first thought just seeing the title was: global warming just might bring back that coast.