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Election Letter #3

Michael Ceraolo

To Those Posting Electoral Maps,

Specifically,
the maps of 1846 and 2012,
purporting some political point or other
(usually accompanied by a cliche)
The only point,
             political or otherwise,
that can legitimately be made
from a comparison of the two maps
is that there are more states in 2012
than there were in 1846

                        Although,
                                 upon further review,
the point can be made that those posting the maps
show the sad state of American history education
Among the errors:
                    one state
and a few territories weren’t even part of the United States
in 1846,
         though
they were well on their way to being conquered;

several of the so-called free states
still had slavery in 1846,
                        and in these and others
free blacks could no more vote than could slaves;

the Democrats were the party of slavery
in 1846,
        while the Whigs,
the ancestors of modern Republicans,
were its opponents
                    (at least,
they were opposed to any further spreading of it);

                                                And
four of the fifteen official slave states
in 1846
        (a sizable minority),
                            now
vote Democrat as often as not
                             (including
giving us the current Vice-President),
                                    and
two other official slave states gave us
another recent winning Democratic ticket
                                        (as well as
one who was elected by the popular and electoral vote
but lost by one vote in the only election that mattered that year)

And to further illustrate the folly,
can anyone really draw a political inference
from a state that has at various times
elected Ronald Reagan and Jerry Brown,
                                        or
one that has elected Robert LaFollette and Joe McCarthy,
                                                        or
[insert your own state’s examples HERE]

Further issues will be addressed in the next letter

Class is now dismissed

Best,
Michael

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