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.
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.
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.
Want to offer a suggestion/correction.
IT is not the “eastern” or RINO’s but should be known henceforth as the Vichy Republicans
Good riddance.
Strawman argument as I’m not sure when the last time the NE Republicans had any power (within the party or otherwise).
The party is seriously lacking when it comes to public relations and, more importantly, it lacks politicians with attitude that only the Northeast can provide. The only guy I see eviscerating the libs day in and day out is Giuliani. When I see the wimps the GOP trot out on TV (like Lindsey Graham) I wince.
IMO, this bastion of states have inexorably been responsible for most of the unrest of America. It was the Northeast where the American Revolution was spirited, but it was in the South where American independence won in places such as Cowpens, Kings Mountain and, eventually, Yorktown.
It was also the Northeast where the seeds of abolition were planted to grow into Civil War but it was the boys from Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota who actually knew how to shoot straight that won the war and actually freed the slaves. It was the Northeastern carpetbagger who pillaged the South following that war and the Northeastern newspapers which backed a war in 1898 with Spain but railed against one initially with World War I&II Germany.
I would actually prefer that these states would secede from the U.S. and become annexed by Canada to be the Great White North's problem child like so many of its disgruntled citizens threaten to do if McCain gets elected...and, please, take the Ivy League college profs and alumni with them--BEGONE!
You’re awful new here to be posting your personal crap!
FR isn’t a blog!