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Anyone who puts down the south on Free Republic, historically or otherwise had better be darn glad for the open-minded consistency of this patriotic region. Try running this election in the states that comprised the US during the Civil War if you want.

Southerners are common sense patriots. Zell Miller and Richard Shelby are the prototypes. Shelby was elected in the last Democrat southern landslide back in 86 and has switched parties.

The south is the best integrated, least racially torn region of the country. My people are spread out from NC, to GA, ALA, MS, and LA. My father moved our tribe to AZ and we have a western version out here, very patriotic, and mindful of our family tree.

Our attitude is characterized by the crossed American and much maligned confederate battle flags.

For any one with the least snobbism towards the south, I say, try winning an election without us. Those northerners are real numbskulls.

I've really been perplexed all along that so many people hate Bush, particularly in the "Old Northern" states. It bothers me that the South has such a huge relative advantage in armed forces service.

I almost feel that so many northeasterners just couldn't bear to vote Bush because of the Texas twang thing. New Jersey was OK to vote for Reagan=landslide in 1984 because he had this neutral American accent.

I think this "South Rulez GOP" too far. You can write any book with a premise like this and stretch it completely beyond recognition, like the guy who wrote "How the Irish Saved Civilization" or a more recent "How the Scots Invented the Modern World". Koreans are particularly good at this type of thought. In my experience they have a lot of similarities to Japanese and Chinese, though they think they are better than both.

One thing we can agree on is that the South is completely different from what it was in 1860, and is even barely recognizable from what it was in 1960 (the lack of recognition of these changes by non-Southerners is part of the Democrats' problem).

One of the best things the South has preserved over the past 150 years is a *relatively* strong Christian faith, IMHO.

Try running this election in the states that comprised the US during the Civil War if you want.

Exactly. Of the states that were undisputably on the union side of the war Bush won only Iowa, Ohio, Kansas, and Indiana. He won the first two by only the narrowest of margins. Everywhere else in the old union states went Kerry.