[goldstategop]

He does. Northern Republicans are preppy WASPs who look down at working class folks and Southern Republicans are working class stiffs who easily mingle with the NASCAR crowd. So they are culturally different.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Joya]

Doesn’t compute for me personally. I have whites, blacks, and asians in my family. I was born 300 miles south of the Canadian border way “out west”. I am not a New Englander nor am I a southerner. But I AM a cradle Republican.

[roamer_1]

He does. Northern Republicans are preppy WASPs who look down at working class folks and Southern Republicans are working class stiffs who easily mingle with the NASCAR crowd. So they are culturally different.

What the author fails to reveal is that the disagreement isn't "Northern" vs. "Southern", as his observation discounts the Midwest and the West, which are certainly aligned with the South, at least in regard to Conservatism.

It is more a matter of "Northern" and "Left Coast" RINOs against the will of the rest of the country.