Map in the Politics Section

What the hell, that thing looks ridiculous. Look, we can include Maryland and Delaware as being "part of the South" to humor those not living in reality, but only on a token basis. We're not actually supposed to try and integrate the two states into Southern society when they really don't belong!

That being said, the map of Southern electoral votes is completely absurd. You've got this big red mass with a tiny little speck of blue at the top that obviously doesn't belong, but we're just going to pretend like Maryland and Delaware aren't two of the most heavily Democratic states in the whole damn country. 

Now, let's see, politically, who would be a closer match to Maryland and Delaware? Why, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island...

Oh, all Northern states. 

Like I said, I'll pretend, for the sake of mollifying the hard-liners, that Maryland and Delaware are "border states." Everyone knows, though, that they're actually not, and including them in an article about Southern politics, when their own political sentiments are so flagrantly Northern, is silly.  Somebody please fix or remove this map, as it's misleading. 

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