• Rolando@lemmy.worldOP
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    4 months ago

    Things to consider:

    • The parties were very different than they are today. This was before the Republican Southern Strategy of appealing to racism
    • In fact, in the election map above, the South was won by the Democratic candidate; the Republican candidate won the North and the election
    • Condo (the creator of the strip) was born in Illinois and later worked in Ohio