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I know the south bashing posse likes to diminish our dependable Conservatism down with the melanin challenged demographics. That's a shame. Without us, the already glum future would look worse.

No, city vs. rural. Cities are liberal, rural areas are conservative. The South's cities are smaller and therefore don't drag their whole states down. Simple. There's not much difference between a rural southerner and a rural northerner nor between an urban southerner nor an urban northerner statistically.

I would disagree with that. The Upper Peninsula of Michigan has always been one of the most Democratic regions of my home state. In the South, politics is more likely to be polarized along racial lines. The whites belong to one party, the blacks to another. In the rural north, there are no minorities (except Indians), so whites vote more on the lines of economic interests. Unions were always a powerful force, especially in the mining, so that gave northern Michigan (along with Wisconsin and Minnesota) a Democratic heritage. But, yeah, they hate gays and gun-grabbers, so maybe a shift is coming.