Posted on 11/30/2006 8:28:48 PM PST by Western Civ 4ever
The Frisco comparison works for us because Red Staters think its residents are snotty, strange, and intellectually out to lunch. If you think, say, Ohioans will shrink being told Candidate X has "Southern conservative values," well, good luck with that.
Up here in blue state Michigan we threw out affirmative action. I thought that made us a bunch of racists.
I would point out that in mid atlantic Maryland, Democratic Operative were throwing oreo cookies at Mike Steele and using racial slurs about him.
Liberal=hippocrite
Is he the idiot that used to post here? He called me some dirty names once.....then again, maybe he was looking for a date.
Dixie ping
Articles like this just prove that the authors don't have a clue about the South. The South is no more racist than anywhere else.
I don't know.
That must be why areas of the South with relatively few blacks have also trended heavily GOP. If the writer were writing about the Memphis metro area, maybe. But the South ain't all about Memphis. Why has western Kentucky gone so heavily towards the GOP? It must be all about those blacks who don't live there. It clearly has nothing to do with the evangelical and other cultural elements that have nothing to do with race. That is just an exercise in white denial.
A Ph.D in public policy?
He must be a day at the beach.
It was apparently just fine when Huey Long's Great Depression variety of populism made us the foundation for their New Deal coalition for fifty years, a period of a much more virulent "racism" than any remnants that exist today.
You can only concede so many of those big states to the blue column.
I think Penn. is gone for good, Ohio is on a razor's edge, Arizona may be gone, Minnesota and Michigan razor thin.
I'm not sure which GOP candidate can get these back, and hold the south.
This is a bit like observing that a woman over six feet tall is no less likely to reach the product on the top shelf than is a man who is six feet tall. True enough. It is just that there are far fewer of them.
I don't think so. Democrats like Napolitano can get elected here, but only if they are exceedingly competent (or at least perceived to be so), run against a weak Republican, and govern from the middle. There is no Left worthy of the name here, just degrees of conservative.
Remember Bob Stump Sr.? He was one of the most conservative members of Congress, but ran as a Democrat for several terms before finally making the jump to the Republican party.
Arizona is still a red state, perhaps a lighter shade of red than before, but certainly not a place where Democrats can count on winning anything.
-ccm
I think you're being a bit too pessimistic on Ohio. Yes, we got creamed there this year, but with Taft at 15% approval did you really expect differently? Arizona, I think is mostly hype. Napolitano, yes. But she originally won in GOP romp year 2002, along with Dem governors in Kansas and Wyoming! No one seriously talks about "losing" those states. And Giffords was a given, I think, after the lack of the Kolbe endorsement and the bitter primary. Hayworth's loss may be the only real cause for worry.
In actuality, neither party has had much room for error in Presidential elections for some time. The GOP starts counting on the South, Plains, and interior West, the RATs with the Northeast, upper Midwest, and West coast, and we fight over what's left. It remains to be seen whether the Dem's gains in so many Bush 2004 districts portend any real trouble for us long term. Remember, 1982 and 1986 were seen as disasters at the time, too, and it foretold nothing about the health of Reagan's coalition. Anyone telling you they see "realignment" three weeks after a single election is wishful thinking.
I've heard this said about ner' do well whites. Us hillbillies, for example. Does that prove racism? It's been around since the beginning of time.
I remember the days when merely believing that the federal government is limited only to the powers it is granted in the Constitution (Tenth Amendment) would earn you the deep-seated hatred, ill will, enmity, hostility, antagonism, animosity, rancor, antipathy, animus of caring people of good will screaming contemptuous epithets at you; to wit, "You support Goldwater!! Why you $#^&*@. . . .!!!" (And those were the employees of the MSM of the 1960s.)
I thought Mr. Perlstein was / is a Freeper.
If the Gop controls the south as this pompous bastard alleges, it is because Southerners respect human life, especially among the unborn, while the Dims are determined to see that the baby slaughter continues unchecked until there are no more Americans being born.
Nope, you have it backwards. You were a bunch of racists when you were practicing affirmative action.
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