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Tag: Black Belt

Black Belt / Maps

A Map of the Slave Population at the Start of the Civil War

Just a reminder that the maps like this one have a bitter past.  Above is a map produced in 1861, at the start of the Civil War,  based on census …

Black Belt / Maps

The Racial Dot Map: One Dot Per Person

As I have been researching the Black Belt (see this post) came across this wonderful visualization out of the University of Virginia.  The map shows the Black Belt running across …

Black Belt / Maps / Politics

How presidential elections are impacted by a 100 million year old coastline

This post was originally published on June 2012 at Deep-Sea News Hale County in west central Alabama and Bamberg County in southern South Carolina are 450 miles apart.  Both counties …

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