Another way the US is divided: states that allow corporal punishment in schools

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I watched an MSNBC story about how many schools allow and use corporal punishment and they flashed a map on the screen but I couldn't grab my iPhone to take a photo so I found a map online. It didn't surprise me how this map reflected the divisions in our country between the hard-right states and the more moderate to left and progressive states.

When I looked for some articles I found this from a few days ago:

On almost every measure of beliefs about matters effecting how people live their lives that touches even remotely on the extreme agenda of the right-wing form abortion to teaching about the role of racism in our history to anything having to do with LGBTQ+ issues, the country is divided like shown in this map. A few years ago terms like WOKE and CRT weren't even in the political lexicon. 

Now we have this new map that would like like a map of the old Confederacy.

Below: legend for map

Now if you compare the two maps you see how if we consider the map including states that allow corporal punishment to have many more beliefs and values in common with the Confederacy we may conclude that  in some ways the South has made major gains in their attempt to win the Civil War.

Note how Kansas, Colorado,Wyoming, and Idaho stick up west and north with Idaho abutting my state of Oregon.

With strict anti-abortion law now enacted or about to go into effect in Idaho, Oregon is gearing up by opening Planned Parenthood clinics in towns near the border. Unfortunately eastern Oregon is very conservative and residents along the Idaho border are to happy with this. For example:

In Oregon-Idaho border town, planned abortion clinic receives little welcome from locals

In our own way here in Oregon we are fighting our own civl way against the resurgent Confederacy.

For the first time since I moved to Oregon from progressive Massachusetts about 10 years ago I am very anxious about the outcome of of race for governor and several other positions. See: 

If Oregon independent governor candidate Betsy Johnson wins it may be a disaster for progressives