[ComtedeMaistre]

By the way, if I may elaborate on the situation in France, a country that I know very well. It is not that there are no conservatives in France. But the socialist bloc in France is so powerful, both demographically and politically, that freedom loving Frenchmen are completely shut out from mainstream political debate in France.

I have met Frenchmen who sneer at the French Revolution of 1789 and the tricolor, and prefer to fly the ancient white flag of the Bourbons. There are a few hardened monarchists who lament the socialist misfortunes into which their once great nation landed.

[mc5cents]

Last time I looked, Florida was in the South, at least geographically

Glad you added the "at least". I grew up in Miami, my dad was from Alabama and my mom from Key West, and when air-conditioning made it's way down there that all the "damn yankees" followed. After that it was said that you had to go north to get south. More true today than ever.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I have met Frenchmen who sneer at the French Revolution of 1789 and the tricolor, and prefer to fly the ancient white flag of the Bourbons. ...as they are led up the steps to the guillotine before being gibbeted.

[MissAmericanPie]

That is too bad about conservatives in France, we are certainly begining to know how they feel here in the South West.

Too bad they don't want to "migrate" to the USofA If they did, they could buy a set of id's, SS#'s, etc. on any street corner. In fact the South may rise again if their citizens turn into Coyotes and smuggle in conservative Europeans, lol.