The South once voted for Wilson and fdr, too of the biggest big government traitors ever. Now, thankfully, it is a bastion of Conservatism. The New Yorker Cleveland was also a near-great President, as was the Vermonter, Coolidge.
I like Coolidge—in fact, I wrote him in rather than vote for Romney. Massachusetts did well to put a Vermonter in the statehouse. As to Cleveland, if he had gone for the minting of silver we might have avoided fiat money.
That you think of the South as a bastion of conservatism says more about you than it does of the south. The south is a bastion of conservative democrats who have become moderate republicans, as well as black democrats who don’t fully buy into everything that the Ivy League is selling.
What you and some others who are clueless about history haven't figured out is that the South was ALWAYS a bastion of Conservatism. It never supported the creation of a federal leviathan. Right from the very start it wanted the federal government to be limited, its budgets to be both modest and balanced, and it wanted to stay out of foreign wars......ie things we call Conservative today.
New England always wanted the exact opposite. Those who supported big government, corporate welfare, crony capitalism, centralized power, etc were Republicans in the mid 19th century. They are Democrats today and those who are Conservatives today are Republicans. Political parties change over time. Hell, MAGA is changing the Republican party right now.