Just the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God. Bullshit.
Your post is so full of lies it's hard to know where to start.
The only point here is: the South was always more likely to vote for a Liberal Progressive redistributionist socialistic Democrat for President than any other section of the country.
I will agree that approximately 25% of the South is inclined to vote for liberals. That would be the melanin enriched part of the South, who have traditionally been aligned with the yankees since a certain unpleasantness.
So let's not hear any more of: the South has always been "more conservative than thou" talk, OK?
I thought you were all about truth, bro.
Since you like maps, check this one out:
BTW, the Southern states that are blue on that map have been infested with yankees.
Three questions for ya, bro:
1) Which yankee state are you from?
2) Since the South is so bad, wouldn't the north be better off without us?
3) What do you think the government would be like in the northern states without the South?
cowboyway:
"Bullshit. Your post is so full of lies it's hard to know where to start." Nothing but the truth -- abbreviated of course.
If you want to point out an actual "lie," I'll be interested to learn it.
cowboyway: "I will agree that approximately 25% of the South is inclined to vote for liberals.
That would be the melanin enriched part of the South, who have traditionally been aligned with the yankees since a certain unpleasantness."
I understand your point, you made it before, and in recent elections it may have some validity.
But it was not Southern black voters who elected Woodrow Wilson President in 1912 and 1916.
Such blacks as could vote back then would have voted Republican.
It was Southern white votes that twice elected Wilson -- and without them, Wilson would have lost.
Southern whites also voted solidly for FDR (4 times) and Stevenson (twice) -- at a time when most blacks who could vote were still voting Republican.
And the real proof that Deep South whites, not blacks, controlled elections came in 1964 when they voted against all tradition and for the Mr. Conservative Republican, Barry Goldwater.
By then the black vote was solidly Democrat, but they could not stop the Deep South from turning red.
The same was true in 1972 when the South voted for Nixon over Leftist darling McGovern.
Point is: whenever the South wanted to vote Republican, it certainly could.
But it did not want to -- when the choices were Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson and Jimmy Carter.
So there's no truthful way you can blame those votes on Southern blacks, pal.
Now, here's your McCain v Obama map again.
I live in one of the darkest red Northern counties.
cowboyway: "2) Since the South is so bad, wouldn't the north be better off without us?"
I love the South, half my family are Southerners.
And I believe that any state which wants to secede should submit its application to Congress, negotiate all matters in good faith -- such as shares of national debt and disposition of Federal properties -- then legally abide by whatever the Congress decides.
And if Congress votes "no", then they should work harder to win friends and allies, and then try, try again.
cowboyway: "3) What do you think the government would be like in the northern states without the South?"
Where the Southern vote made a genuine difference was in the elections of Woodrow Wilson in 1912 & 1916, Franklin Roosevelt's third and fourth terms in 1940 & 1944, Jimmy Carter in 1976, Bill Clinton in 1992.
Without the Solid South, those elections could have gone for more moderate Republicans, and the result is, we'd all be somewhat less liberal today.
But understand, I'm not trying to minimize the South's conservative vote today -- it's hugely important.
I'm only saying -- truthfully -- the South was not always so conservative.
In many past elections white Southerners voted the straight Liberal Progressive redistributionist socialist Democrat ticket for President.