You would think reading things like this on Free Republic that no liberalism at all existed in states like Texas, Florida, Georgia, Virginia, or...Maine, and any that did exist was completely brought in by “outsiders”.
It isn’t so.
It’s a combination of “native born” and people moving in from other states.
I have seen no shortage of gray-haired women here in Maine driving a Toyota Prius with an “OBAMA 2012” bumper sticker.
You’re right
All major cities are liberal wherever they are and many are black or Latino run
What saves the south are the white suburbs around every city and in cases of white population dominance we rule the rural areas but the delta regions and black belt are exceptions
Nashville TN because of 28% black and huge hipster population votes about like Portland or Austin
The surrounding 9-11 counties are the opposite
My county is 95% white at least and 75-80% GOP
in the Deep South whites vote 88-90% GOP now
That’s the main difference between Dixie and everyone else
How whites vote,,,,nowhere else is even close
Some of it is culture but much is to hold the tide against the black block
But even in Mississippi and Alabama you have white liberal zip codes
Fondren in Jackson and much of Oxford and parts of Hattiesburg
Southerners are more religious
10 times more churches in the south
Regrettably, you are correct.