“I think highly of Billy Graham, but did you know that he is a registered Democrat? It is maddening! How could ANYONE who is pro-life, vote for a dem?
He also spoke highly of x42 in his book “Just as I am.”
I live in the South, too, and my county is about 90 percent Democrat, but it doesn’t mean they vote that way, especially on the national leve. It’s just tradition here. There’s a lot of elderly people who are FDR, “Old South” Democrats. Most of the local elected officials are Democrats. But just as we have RINOs, here where I live they are DINOs. They are very conservative, pro-life and anti-gay and nothing like the national Democrats. They are actually Republicans but they don’t care to admit it. My county, which is about 10-to-1 in favor of the Democrats, voted for McCain by a 56-44 percent margin. Go figure.
Ditto to what you said-—my dad back home in the mountains of southwestern Virginia is an old school FDR/Truman democrat and would NEVER change his party affiliation to Republican, even though his personal ideology is far more Conservative than those who currently run the Rat party. Just won’t happen, and like you said, it’s more tradition than anything else.