From todays midday open thread:
As you can see in our weekly poll, the South is wildly out of step with the rest of the country in its views towards Obama and the Democratic Party. Paul Rosenberg thinks establishment DC is just like the South.
As epitomized by President Obama's address to Congress, in contrast to the embarrassing GOP response, Versailles seems to have grudgingly admitted that maybe there really is something to this Obama fellah. But their attitude remains much, much closer to that of the South than it is to that of the nation as a whole... much less non-Southern America.
First off, KOS's link to the poll that show how backwards the south is had absolutley NO regional information. This is unlike KOS who usually backs up his words with ample source, but in this case he dropped the ball.
Okay, let me put things into perspective about the southern states. First off, lets put this rumor away that all republicans live in the south. THIS IS FALSE. Another unheard of argument is that there are LOTS AND LOTS of democrats in the south. I deeply bothers me when I hear comments from non southerners belittleing southern states and the hard working democrats who live here. The simple thing we are guilty of is not having a majority of democrats in our states. Constantly on this site I read blogs and diaries demonozing the south as backwards, slow, and inefficiant. By creating this US and THEM environment regarding the south, its easy to see why so many southerners would react negativley towards the Democratic party. How could I pull a fellow southerner to the Democrats if they are contantly reminded of the Norths "superiority" complex.
To put things into perspective:
If you added up all the republican voters in GA, SC, TN, Al, MS, KY, and LA you get around 8.75 million votes.
If you added up all the republican voters in the "liberal states" of NY, CA, and MA you will get around 8.3 million votes.
Without the smallest voting republican state of AL with only around 683K votes, if you added up the entire republican voting south, it would still amount to less republicans than in those three democratic voting states.
Reasons to stop this crap are as follows:
YOUR NOT BUILDING THE PARTY WITH THIS TALK.
ITS NOT FAIR TO SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS AND SOUTHERNERS IN GENERAL.
MOST OF ALL, ITS PISSING ME OFF!!