You just keep on snarking and don't have the smarts to know when you should back off.  Maryland has long been Democratic, so what.  Yes!  They put up Confederate statues in Baltimore early in the 20th centuy. There are also confederate sympathizers still living there.  I grew up with confederate symbols displayed. And you are also wrong - the Democratic/liberal/leftist - really took hold in the 1960s, civil rights and the Vietnam War.  I know because I was there.