Anyways wasn’t New Orleans part of the South? How about Atlanta or Durham? Yes, real bastions of conservative thought. Oh yes and how about Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton? Unfortunately the dividing line is not so much north and south but urban versus rural.
No region is perfect, but the U.S. would be very far to the left without the South. There are liberal pockets in the South (Atlanta, New Orleans, etc.) but they generally get outvoted by the more conservative regions. The opposite usually occurs in the North and on the West Coast, where the conservative pockets get outvoted by the leftist areas.
Since the far left took over the Democrat Party in the late sixties, the Dems have only carried the South one time in a presidential election. That was Jimmy Carter in 1976, who ran as a conservative and I’ll concede that he fooled us. Clinton lost the South in both 1992 & 1996.
Not only does the South elect mostly conservatives, but its very presence as an important region keeps lefties in other regions from going even further. As nutty as Schumer, Obama, Hillary, Kerry, Kennedy, Leahy, and others are, they’d be even kookier if the South was a seperate country. In such a scenario, the Heartland & Rocky Mountain states would be electorally crushed, and would live under the constant and permanent hegemony of the Northeast & West Coast.
Goodbye second amendment!