South's Shift To Conservatism Now Complete With Defeat Of Mary Landrieu

New Orleans Advocate ^ | 12/07/2014 | Gregory Roberts

[goldstategop]

The values that are pre-eminent for Republican Party voters are probably freedom, independence, autonomy, limited government and self-reliance, and a strong belief in the powers of capitalism and a free market,” Cross said. “We see them in the South: the calls or less government, the call for people to take personal responsibility, the inveighing against the dependent class.”

And in Louisiana and other energy-producing states, he said, the perceived antipathy of national Democrats for the oil and gas industry helps swell Republican ranks.

“We’re looking at something more than just a bad year,” said Charlie Cook, the Shreveport native who writes the Cook Political Report in Washington, which tracks congressional politics.

“Democrats are effectively losing everything they could lose in the South,” retaining at the federal level only U.S. House seats in black-majority districts, such as the one represented by Cedric Richmond of New Orleans,

“Democrats are becoming a party of big cities and college towns, and not much beyond that,” Cook said. “For whatever reason, non-college-educated white voters are looking at the Democratic Party and they don’t see it as representing them.

“These people are kind of a no-fly zone for the Democratic Party.”

Because of the distribution of population across the country, the Democrats remain in a strong position when it comes to presidential elections. But as the makeup of the incoming Congress demonstrates, their claim on power in the House and Senate is more tenuous.

“There’s no way for the Democrats to be a national party without the South,” Stockley said. “How do they intend to take back the Senate? How do they intend to cut into the Republican majority in the House of Representatives?

“What are they going to do to win back Southern whites?”

[CatherineofAragon]

“South’s shift to conservatism”

Well, I wish Virginia would get the memo.

[bert]

part of Virginia has the North East cancer

[txnativegop]

“Democrats are becoming a party of big cities and college towns, and not much beyond that,” Cook said. “For whatever reason, non-college-educated white voters are looking at the Democratic Party and they don’t see it as representing them. Why is it the libs think that conservatives are uneducated?

[SamAdams76]

Whites still make up 77% of the U.S. population.

Not a good strategy for the Democrats to take their white base for granted and condemn them in order to curry favor with the 23% who are not white.

[A_Former_Democrat]

The racial divide has become even more prounounced. It’s taken awhile for people to stop the denial and wake up about the charade of liberals when it comes to “diversity” crap

[aMorePerfectUnion]

I suspect it is a repulsion away from state control, loss of liberties, lousy economy and liberalism - not a shift to conservatism. Only time will tell. In the meantime, it will be only as good as the courage in the face of RINOs exhibited by any real conservatives who show up in DC... and don’t go native.

[CatherineofAragon]

It certainly does, and it’s metastasizing very quickly.

[I want the USA back]

ML showed her true colors in her campaign. Lying, personal attacks. Glad she’ll not be getting a high-paid low-effort job curtesy of the democrat party.

[Tonytitan]

Mary may be back in 2016 on the HRC ticket running for the Vitter seat.

On whose dime? She's as broke as she is fat. The Dems are gonna pull out their ad buy money in '14 just to give it back to her in '16? I don't think so. She'll be forever remembered for her Obama-fawning ways and thus forever toxic.

[Tupelo]

Don't be too quick to write off the Democrats. Don't forget we elected Republicans and most of them are now GOPe. So I figure they will find away to blow it in time to lose the White House in 2016 and maybe the Senate.

[dangus]

These puzzle me. Last I checked, Florida and Virginia were in the South.

[klgator]

lowlife, sleazy scumbag Bill Nelson of Florida is the last one .....he will be gone next election.

He's the perfect example why you should never vote for a Democrat at any level of government. They will aspire to higher office. He was an all right representative from the space coast, but when he got to Washington, he became an Obamabot. Lawton Chiles is another, and don't forget the empty suit Bob Graham. Both decent governors until they got to Washington and embraced the dark side.

[TLI]

“What are they going to do to win back Southern whites?”

Nuthin.

The "southern white" knows they have a good thing going on... and northern liberal communism isn't it.

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[Cannoneer]

I’m with you PROXY. Nelson has to go or the shift is not complete.

[Impy]

They won’t win back Southern Whites.

But that doesn’t mean they can’t take back the Senate.

[packrat35]

Not really. Florida is full of northern Yankees and Jews who moved there bringing there BS with them.

[Cowboy Bob]

The filthy rich democrats are also power hungry megalomaniacs. They would never be accepted as “leaders” by the rank in file republicans, so they become Democrats.

[rrrod]

Absolutely correcto!

[uglybiker]

Now if we could just get S. Carolina to ditch Lindsey Graham.....

[Reeses]

It will be interesting to see how legalized pot affects rat voter turnout over time. Possibly conservatives should support doping up the bottom of the rat pyramid.