The Democrat South made it happen just as much as (if not more than) anyone.
Have you checked the electoral map RECENTLY? The South hasn’t been Democrat in well over 30 years. In fact, the ONLY area that has been SOLIDLY and reliably “BLUE” has been good ole’ New England. Not even the Industrial belt has had their track record, though they are shaded a lighted hue of blue. Most of the South, with the exception of some of the urban centers is DEEP RED.
DEEP RED = Conservative Values = “Washington, we’ve told you for over 150 years, GET OFF OUR BACKS!” But Washington won’t.
You can argue all day long, until you’re blue in the face, that you believe in Conservative values. I’ve no doubt you do. But your underlying philosophy, if it insists upon an understanding of the Constitution that allows the FINAL arbiter of Liberty to be the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, is ULTIMATELY NO DIFFERENT than the Progressive in the end! Period.
If the States do not retain the right to protect their own population, to sovereignly govern themselves outside those powers CLEARLY enumerated in the Constitution, and if those powers are transgressed, to nullify Federal authority or as a final remedy to secede from their tyrannical control, then LIBERTY is DEAD. And, in some ways, it has been for nearly 150 years.
I've studied every electoral map going back into the 1800s, and can picture a good many of them in my mind.
What I know is that the South voted solid Democrat -- 70%, 80% even 90% all the way up until, you remember when?
Of course, Barry Goldwater. For the first time, the Deep South voted Conservative Republican.
I can imagine it must have d*amn near killed them, but they did it.
Then for about 30 years the South was confused -- voting one way one time, the other way the next time, and not always the South's fault.
After all, if Republicans are offering up near-beer RINOs, what's an honest conservative to do?
Then, iirc, sometime in Bill Clinton's years, the South finally made up its mind: We're going to vote for the most Conservative candidate, even if, God help us, its a RINO like John McCain.
And so they did, and God love you for it.
I just hope that someday Republicans will consistently offer up candidates who are seriously worthy of your loyalty and support.
You deserve it. We all do.
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The rest of your nonsense, you got to get over -- nobody here deserves to be flogged with that.
We all support limited Federal Government and more States Rights.
We don't support unilateral secessionism, and we're not ever going to.
SO GET OVER IT!
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