[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.

[wideawake]

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.

You didn't read my post, obviously. A good portion of Northerners became Westerners in the 1870s and 1880s. Their places back home were in large part taken by a massive wave of immigrants from Europe - a Europe well inured to social programs following the revolutions of 1848.

Rhode Island wasn't 30% Italian and Portuguese in 1860.

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

I see. So the 80% vote for FDR - who was the textbook definition of a Northeastern Yankee patrician - was just a highly ironic postmodern protest vote against Yankees.