[re_nortex]

The "Mississippi Miracle" is truly amazing to behold. In 1924, the Magnolia State repudiated solid Conservative Calvin Coolidge (a favorite of President Ronald Reagan) for leftist John Davis, DemonRAT of West Virginia. Every single county went for the 'RAT back then.

And now, a mere 90 years hence, just a couple of generations later, Mississippi is the pride of America as the most Conservative and Christian state in the nation. The good people of Mississippi are indeed worthy of admiration for rejecting their liberal past and embracing the Conservative values that made America great!

[Mich Patriot]

Honest question...by what criteria is Mississippi the most conservative state? I’d really like to know which state is the most conservative, and by what measure(s) it is determined so. A top ten would be interesting to see even.

I saw some list (source unknown) of the most conservative and liberal states, but do not recall MS being in the top three even. I guess it depends on how you measure it.

[Mich Patriot]

Also, I just compiled a list of combined income and sales taxes by state, and Mississippi came out 44th...one of the highest combined rates in the nation. That doesn’t ring conservative to me, but I realize there’s more to it than that (gas taxes, property taxes, fees, fees, fees...).

I guess my point is that ranking states on any kind of freedom index seems quite challenging. I mean, can you really just go by voting history?

[Viennacon]

And the rats actually think Childers has a chance! lol

[Wallace T.]

Paralleling the shift of the South to the Republican column is the loss of the Northeast and West Coast to the Democrat side. Coolidge won almost every county in the Northeast, save for a few mountainous counties in Pennsylvania, a couple in the New York City area, and the old slaveholding areas of Delaware and Maryland. Other than inland areas supporting LaFollette, all three West Coast states were carried by Coolidge, even San Francisco and Seattle.

Kansas, however, is consistent: solidly Republican then, solidly Republican now.