Buzzfeed ’s Ky Harlin and Jane Kellyhave put together a band of maps , based on passing polls , that show how this retiring presidential election would have played out in the U.S. if our story had gone slenderly differently . What if woman and lightlessness had never gotten the vote ? Above , you’re able to see how the election would have turned out if only whitened military personnel could vote , which was the sheath until 1870 .
It ’s important to commemorate that this is based on current suffrage for current parties . There have been many diachronic shifts in U.S. party . The South , now a stiff red region , would have been very blue in the early twentieth C . So the white human race voting Republican today would have voted Democrat historically ; and of course some of our more “ giving ” presidents like Lincoln were Republicans . And do n’t even get me begin on the Whigs . So these alternating chronicle mapping assume that everything has rest the same historically in terms of party shifts . The one thing that ’s different is who gets to vote .
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And here ’s what the results would be if only adult male ( of all raceway ) could vote , which was the sheath until 1920 :
But what if blacks had never receive suffrage , and only white mankind and women could vote ? Here ’s what you get :
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