wardaddy: "Bro will need some iodine gauze and a lortab"
Reliable, sure... just as there were no more reliable FDR New Deal Socialist voting Democrats than the former Confederate states.
Now you claim to be conservatives who vote Republican, but really: you think, you talk & post like Democrats, beginning with -- what are the first rules of being a good Democrat?
You know them, right?
- Lie.
Lie with a straight face, lie with conviction, lie with passion.
If your lies aren't convincing, then you're just no d*mn good as a Democrat. - When in doubt, attack, attack, attack!!
Never back down, never admit you're wrong, never accept defeat. - When all else fails, reframe the issue.
For example, if the Mueller Report says no collusion or obstruction, what do you, as a good Democrat do?
That's right, you reframe, announce: "We have to impeach the President now, because otherwise he'll get reelected"!! - Corrupt the language however necessary.
Words don't mean what they mean, they only mean what Democrats say they mean.
Who's that jerk from Indiana running for President, telling us he's going to attack the President's lack of commitment to traditional marriage, because of the President's divorces?
And that's because this fellow has only one "wife"!
Or is it husband? - Don't argue facts or reasons, just make it personal -- accuse, insult, mock and it doesn't matter if what you say is true, just be as nasty as you can.
NKP_Vet: "You see Southerners were states rights, God-fearing conservatives in the middle of the 18th Century the same way they are today."
Noooo… first, mid-18th Century was 1750, colonial era.
So mid-19th Century was 1850, antebellum decades.
Now, from 1801 until secession in 1861 Southern Democrats ruled over the Washington, DC, swamp almost continuously, dominating Congress, the Supreme Court and even the Presidency through Northern Democrat allies like Doughfaced Presidents Pierce and Buchanan.
When Democrats were in charge they spent $10 million (a huge sum in those days) for the Gadsden Purchase, a Southern Route for the transcontinental railroad -- a project in which Secretary of War Jefferson Davis had a large personal interest -- hello swamp-man!
From 1850 to 1858 Democrats doubled Federal spending and from 1855 to 1860 they doubled National Debt -- hello Barrack Obama!
Even more to the point, Southern Democrats then, just as Democrats today adamantly opposed Putting Americans First and Making America Great by using protective tariffs to encourage American manufacturers -- hello Hillary!
Except, of course, when it came to Southern production of items like cotton, sugar & rice, etc.
NKP_Vet: "YankeeLand was liberal land.
Big government, bleeding heart liberals that thought Southerners were not as smart as a Yankee, and in that regard not much has changed in the last 150 years."
But there was no truly Big Government until the Solid South voted solidly for socialist FDR's New Deal and increased the Federal non-debt spending from its historical peacetime average of ~2.5% of GDP to 17% in 1936 and pretty much 20+% of GDP ever since.
As late as 1956 (yes, I remember it!) you guys voted solidly for an Illinois socialist named Adlai Stevenson over Gen. Dwight Eisenhower.
Yeh, sure, some of you jumped off the socialist train in the 1960s, but hardly because you didn't want any more "free stuff" from Washington.
Rather, it was because your fellow Southern Democrat Lyndon (Bird) Johnson loved his black voters more than you!
So don't give me this "we're the real conservatives" crap, you're not.
You're not, you're just G.D. Democrats which means pretty much everything you say is a freakin' lie.