WHAT A GREAT AND FANTASTIC DAY!!! EVEN THE SUN IS SHINNING HERE IN THE GREAT NORTH WET!!! And we even still have a chance at the governor's chair, we hope, we hope, we pray!
If your point is that the Southern states are crucial to electoral victory, then you're right.
But I think the analogy to the War Between the States is flawed in multiple ways, and in poor taste.
Just my opinion...not a flame.
Kerry took 4 states and DC with 57% or more. Bush took 19. Nice.
Amen to that! I being a GA native, am very proud of my state and all of the south for that matter. The wife an I are the "young vote" @ 25 but she's more flaming conservative than me!! She'd be on fr too if she wasn't wraping up med school. I think a large number of my generation (in the south anyway) are starting to wake up and see what left leaning parts of the country are like. Then there's WSJ's best of the web's Roe effect ... aka more young people are conservate b/c their conservative leaning parents didn't abort them.... but anyway.
I think the south, in general, value freedom and responsibilty more than left leaning states in the north. Those two factors along with the relgious influence swing people to the conservative side. We are in many ways like a seperate country b/c of the values southerners keep.
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JH
We did our part -- 61% for President George W. Bush
A glorious day!!! Once NM and IOWA "officially" turn RED, the division in this country will be clearly visible.
The USA is now 3 Countries:
Rustbeltistan, Envirowhakostan, and THE UNITED STATES!!!!
"The South shall rise again!" And we did just that.
Don't forget the Dixiecrats, they helped more Republican candidates to win office than you think. The South has always been there and always will. The war of northern agression was just a minor setback.
It is indeed a beautiful sight!!
YEEEEEEE-HAW!!!
It took a 'Bama-born bastard to set y'all straight. Guess it really IS the Heart of Dixie!
Wrong.
We lost the states rights battle completely. The US is ruled by an Imperial Federal Government. For now, it just in friendly hands. After 2008, who knows?
Rather thank making a frontal assault on domestic programs, he seems intent on destroying the leftist patronage system by replacing the bureaucratic middlemen with 'faith-based' charities.
Then the courts may be on track undo the federal mandate on abortion law.
Andrew Sullivan is making a lot of noise about a federalist state-by-state solution to gay marriage.
Could the left be so repulsed by a conservative-controlled federal gov't that they would seek refuge in state solutions controlled by 'their people' in California, NY etc.?
Looks to me like the south has finally joined the Northern and Western states.
19 of those states were NOT part of the Confederacy. The President, a Texan, we just elected does NOT support the idea of autonomous southern republic; called the Dred Scott decision an example of bad law by judicial activists; and unlike the radical John C. Calhoun, George W. Bush is a real conservative.
BUMP!
There are the United States. And then there are the Divided States. Divide and Conquer!!!
I think there are some regiments from Indiana, Ohio and Iowa who would object strongly to being characterized as Confederates...Also, please note that the dems stole Wisconsin, so the Badger regiments were on the Prez's side too.
One last thing, and this is not a shot at you, or anybody else on this forum or in the South: Joshua Chamberlain would weep if he could see Maine going for Kerry. It's not what he and the 20th Maine were about.