Covid-19, South vs. North: South loses again!

Daily Kos:

In my morning perusal of The New York Times list of Covid-19 statistics by state, I noticed that the top ten in daily per capita cases, averaged over the last seven days, made up most of the Confederacy. 

In order they are: Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas. Of the ten, all were recognized by the Confederate government as part of the Confederacy, though Kentucky was never formally recognized by the Union as being in rebellion. 

In Kentucky, a border slave-holding state, seditionists formed a shadow government and issued a secession act, which the Confederacy recognized. In any case, the top ten Covid states make up most of the eleven or thirteen (depending on how you count Kentucky and Missouri) states in the Confederacy.....

My only point is that the spread of Covid-19, most prominent where people are rebelling against masks and vaccines, reflects deep structures of feeling and belief that are rooted in history....

Trump of course won those states, except for Georgia where Biden won by only 12,000 votes.

See also Stupidity can be fatal, Fox News, conservatives, and Darwin, No cure for this, and Increasing number of COVID denialists dying of COVID.

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