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  <created-at type="datetime">2008-11-18T11:42:08-05:00</created-at>
  <deck>&lt;p&gt;The bottom map is of 2008 county-level presidential election results. The second map&amp;mdash;all the dots&amp;mdash;represents cotton plantations in 1860. Quite an &lt;a href=&quot;http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/330-from-pickin-cotton-to-pickin-presidents/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;interesting parallel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</deck>
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  <permalink>different-centuries-different-scenarios-same-map</permalink>
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  <title>Different centuries, different scenarios, same map</title>
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