what would the conservative Republicans have if it were not for the South??
or, it may sound better if I asked, numerically, in what part of the country do most conservatives live today?
The south is not the sole conservative stronghold that the press makes it out to be. Look at the county map of red and blue from the last election and you find a lot more red in places other than the south.
The point was that it was the democrat south that seceded and it was the south that remained primarily democrat up through the 60s.
The thought should not be a segmented country but one country again united under a constitutional republic and with an outlawed democrat party.