“Liberal and Conservative have nothing to do with which state you come from. They have everything to do with which part of your state you call home. If your home is a city, chances are very good you’re a Liberal, but as you become more rural, your politics become more Conservative.”
Exactly. This North vs South things is just plain stupid as it really is City versus Rural, Liberal versus Conservative, Taker versus Maker. The dividing line isn’t anywhere near a State boundary as your map and every election map clearly demonstrates.
There are quite a few conservatives that live in cities, just not enough to win elections.
Kevin James just lost a primary election for Mayor of LA with 15% of the vote. If the voters were representative of the population at large, then of some 2 million LA citizens, some 300,000 conservatives would be estimated. That is more than quite a few counties elsewhere.