Posted on 10/26/2008 6:28:19 PM PDT by SoftwareEngineer
Many solid republicans left the NE when more liberal leaders were voted in. It became a self perpetuating cycle. We all live down south now :)
With yankee rinos like Jim Jeffords, Michael Bloomberg and Lincoln Chaffee, they will not be missed.
I don't know about that, but I do know that it is way past time for a different method of scheduling state primaries. I think random computer selection would be great.
Maybe. If McCain wins. If not, all bets are off.
Not a day goes by when I don’t thank my now deceased parents for moving us from Massachusetts to Arizona when I was a kid.
The NE types were fairly smug with the McCain nomination, but he went all Maverick-y on them with Palin, who scares the crap out of them. They thought they’d taken the party back, and are now aghast.
I for one do miss living in Mass, for the scenery and history (the politics, not so much). I hope this comes to pass, as I would like to be able to live there again, but I refuse so long as the 2nd Amendment is so vilified and deprecated there, and so long as the political climate is so anti-business, pro-welfare, deleterious to real estate costs and cost of living, and intolerant.
I don’t think it will swing as far Republican as some areas might, simply because the massive Boston-NY-Washington corridor will stay liberal for a long time, and New England is an extended suburban of the megalopolis.
Good stuff! One point I’d like to make: as I have posted several times - if Mitt Romney was running as the fomer governor of, say Michigan or Utah, he would have fared much, much better.
Conservative and Republican are not the same thing!
There are liberal Republicans, opportunist Republicans who follow wherever the political wind blows, and conservative Republicans. There are also conservatives who are not Republican.
Otherwise, you would end up with folks like Chafee (before he left) and Snowe equated to folks like DeMint and Sanford.
Rep. Scott Garrett, 5th district, NJ is an EXCELLENT conservative northeastern GOPer. Forget the ‘pundits’. They are media whores. Concentrate on actual elected politicians.
Fight fire with fire.
Good essay.
I think this is key - “loss of active religious participation”. A state by state comparison of charitable giving as a % of income reveals that citizens of New England and liberal mid-Atlantic states states are parsimonious compared to those in the south. Government largesse is a substitute for religious charity in their world view.
Romney ping.
You are correct. Republican and conservative are not the same thing and I do take care in separating the two.
However, I use them interchangeably in the one sense that the ONLY nationally viable political party representing us today is Republicans. Thus what happens to the Republican Party impacts us conservatives immeasurably.
he represents a lot of people who work in wall street and voted against the bailout.
Does your map reflect the 1976 election?
Once the babyboomers retire, there will be no one left to twist propagandist liberal lies... for the young conservatives will take over out of sheer frustration and a bitterness we have tasted our entire lives.
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