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"Awww don't feel no ways tard...ahve come too farrrrr from where I started frum."

[Wallace T.]

Rick Santorum, who is also a Yankee, does not play-act faux Southernness while campaigning in the Deep South. Granted, western Pennsylvania is not as urbanized and elitist as Massachusetts (they hunt, fish, and drive pickup trucks in that part of the North). Nonetheless, there is a cultural gap between a Northern Catholic of northern Italian ancestry and the largely Anglo-Celtic Protestant South. With Santorum, what you see is what you get. He is the same in Iowa as in Arizona or Alabama. Whatever his flaws, a lack of consistency is not one of them.