[wideawake]

If it wasn't for us 'losers' being solid red state conservatives you yankees would be a bunch of commies.

Interestingly, the Southern states only became reliably red states starting in 1980 - at precisely the same time as enormous numbers of white Northerners began heading South.

FDR had his ass handed to him in New England - he won the presidency again and again because he got up to 80% of the votes in the Old Confederacy. The New Deal was made possible by the Southern voter - the sons and grandsons of the Confederates.

The turning of the US to a more socialist way of living happened at the Southern ballot box in 1932.

It was solidified by the liberalization of the North - an shift that happened over decades as the original Yankees moved West with the expansion of the frontier and were outnumbered in the Northeast by new, post-Civil War immigrants.

[Non-Sequitur]

Interestingly, the Southern states only became reliably red states starting in 1980 - at precisely the same time as enormous numbers of white Northerners began heading South.

Actually it started happening when Southern Democrats discovered that they could switch to the Republicans and keep their big spending, big government ways.

[cowboyway]

Interestingly, the Southern states only became reliably red states starting in 1980 - at precisely the same time as enormous numbers of white Northerners began heading South.

Please. If thats the case, why is the north so solidly blue? Because enormous numbers of liberal Southerners went north at the same exact time that all those northerners came south?

Pathetic.

the sons and grandsons of the Confederates.

Who still had a deep resentment of anything Republican because of disHonest Abe, The War of Northern Aggression and Reconstruction.

And to be honest, I don't trust this modern herd of rebubs either.