You are right. I don’t know how people can’t see this. They act like no states (except their state matters). They are wrong. As for being lectured by a Virginian (I’m from Virginia-my family lived there for more than 300 years) about the ‘South’-give me a break. There are two Dem Senators in Virginia...take the plank out of your eye my friend. Ohio still has one GOP Senator who voted against the stimulus package. Virginia cast to votes for stimulus.
The electorate in VA gave the boot to a TrueconservativeTM (Allen) in favor of an ersatz moderate 'Rat (Webb). They've elected 'Rat governors for two elections running, and the 'Rat candidate for Senate the last election absolutely stomped and thoroughly thrashed to death the through-and-through TrueconservativeTM 'Pub candidate, blowing him out of the water by over 30 points.
You just can't spun those kind of results away. They mean something, and people have to have the courage to see the reality of what we face. We'd better wake up and smell the coffee, or risk being relegated to the status of the Constitution Party or some other irrelevant political group.