Free States versus Slave States

For an eerie look at the correlation between the former slave states (and territories) and the "red" states in the November 2 election, click on the link below. This illustrates pretty clearly the politics of divisiveness being practiced by the political and religious right. The battle for freedom in the United States did not end at the close of the Civil War, it's continued unabated through the Civil Rights movement of the sixties right up to the present combatants in the homophobia war.

http://sensoryoverload.typepad.com/sensory_overload/2004/11/free_states_vs_.html