BS Look at the county election maps. You'd never get all the northern rural counties to accept communism. Look at the pushback in Wisconsin for Scott Walker. There is no difference between a rural northern county and a rural southern county. The difference is the north has larger cities that tip elections to the Dems, especially when the fraud is added.
It was socially unacceptable to vote for the Party of Lincoln in the South.
So they gave us the Stalin-loving, freedom-snatching commie FDR. Wow, that was real smart.
Only a stupid shit bird would call the South the "liberal" part of the country. What crapola. The Conservatives is the Democrat then are like the Conservatives in the Republican Party of today, they've got "now where else to go".
The South has always been a bulwark against creeping leftism. Just because liberal northerners have moved into southern states and changed the voting patterns is no reason to denigrate what the south has done in keeping conservatism alive. The Midwest has always been more liberal in its history (that book “What Happened to Kansas?” - I think that’s the title) explains it all very well.
I must say we Union types are the biggest sore winners on the planet.