But I think we can take this as pretty solid proof:
"Join or Die" and the 13 colonies (Though 13 weren't represented individually. New England and Massachusetts were split up into multiple colonies earlier, but not on the cartoon; and Franklin left Georgia and Delaware off entirely ), as published in the Pennsylvania Gazette, in 1754; the first known publicly printed exhortation to the formation of the American nation.
It's pretty clear that Ferguson isn't a liberal. It seems he's mostly a libertarian. OF course, he makes a lot of jokes on the lefty side of things, but look at where he works, and for whom.
