Posted on 12/07/2014 5:30:03 PM PST by goldstategop
The values that are pre-eminent for Republican Party voters are probably freedom, independence, autonomy, limited government and self-reliance, and a strong belief in the powers of capitalism and a free market,” Cross said. “We see them in the South: the calls or less government, the call for people to take personal responsibility, the inveighing against the dependent class.”
And in Louisiana and other energy-producing states, he said, the perceived antipathy of national Democrats for the oil and gas industry helps swell Republican ranks.
“We’re looking at something more than just a bad year,” said Charlie Cook, the Shreveport native who writes the Cook Political Report in Washington, which tracks congressional politics.
“Democrats are effectively losing everything they could lose in the South,” retaining at the federal level only U.S. House seats in black-majority districts, such as the one represented by Cedric Richmond of New Orleans,
“Democrats are becoming a party of big cities and college towns, and not much beyond that,” Cook said. “For whatever reason, non-college-educated white voters are looking at the Democratic Party and they don’t see it as representing them.
“These people are kind of a no-fly zone for the Democratic Party.”
Because of the distribution of population across the country, the Democrats remain in a strong position when it comes to presidential elections. But as the makeup of the incoming Congress demonstrates, their claim on power in the House and Senate is more tenuous.
“There’s no way for the Democrats to be a national party without the South,” Stockley said. “How do they intend to take back the Senate? How do they intend to cut into the Republican majority in the House of Representatives?
“What are they going to do to win back Southern whites?”
(Excerpt) Read more at theneworleansadvocate.com ...
“What are they going to do to win back Southern whites?”
The Democratic Party, according to Charlie Cook, is fast becoming a no-fly zone for downstairs voters in the electorate. And in addition to losing them, the Democrats now represent minority-majority districts on the state and federal level throughout the South.
In short the party's problems stem more than just from a bad off-year election. Its shedding people left and right who aren't coming back. If that happened to a business, it would soon be forced to close its doors. What happens to a political party brand that's now hit rock bottom? We'll soon find out.
It splinters. Look up "Whigs".
Say, what about Bill Nelson? Isn’t Florida part of the South?
The fact that he’s still around shows that some white Democrats have managed to hang on.
In FL though, he’s the only statewide office holder the Democrats have left. Every one else is in the minority.
And when he retires, who can FL Democrats run to replace him?
They’re leaving out Florida and just considering the contiguous territory from Texas to the Carolinas.
What they a e losing is anybody that is employed. The moocher class is still there for them.
(1) The filthy rich and powerful elite that controls the party at the top (The Pelosis, Reids, Obama, Clintons, etc)
(2) The leftist special-interest groups that pretend to represent America as a whole (The civil-rights establishment, the homosexual lobby, the envirowackos, the unions, etc)
(3) At the bottom of the pyramid, are the bottom-feeders: welfare, food-stamp, and Section 8 Housing recipients, illegal aliens, those working menial, minimum-wage jobs, black thugs and criminals.
That's who the Democrat Party is today, and that's why they are losing.
Don’t forget the government deadhead class - teacher’s unions, courthouse crowd, postal employees. They are usually reliable Dem voting groups.
Florida is an enigma made of up of various influx immigrants from all states and territories, even some from Cuba.
Be sure to make a distinction between the teachers’ union leadership and paid staff and the rank-and-file membership.
The leadership and paid staff, yes vote Rat 95% of the time (as reliable as the black vote). But the non-office holding member, I am sure not that high of a percentage
Dems plan?
Have the Fed print more money for social engineering schemes, more welfare and more government
Give the money to the South.
I don’t think the southern states are happy with being forced to recognize homosexual marriage. That has to be some of it.
For sure. In any group, there are those who don’t subscribe to the party line. But I think that as a class, those who work for government are more likely to be Dem voters than those who work for private businesses.
lowlife, sleazy scumbag Bill Nelson of Florida is the last one .....he will be gone next election.
You are absolutely correct. And I am sure there are more Department of Labor employees who are registered Democrats than Republicans. Probably relative more registered Republicans who work in the Department of Defense.
Mary may be back in 2016 on the HRC ticket running for the Vitter seat.
That’s a good analysis of the Demos, but the American people could never figure out the delineation you give.
I don’t think so. Her “brand” is irreparably damaged. In fact, her defeat cratered her brother’s chances for Louisiana governor, according to some pundits.
http://www.bestofneworleans.com/blogofneworleans/archives/2014/12/07/da-winnas-and-da-loozas
2. Mitch Landrieu — The mayor may not want to admit it, but his sister’s defeat in the Senate race means he can forget about running for governor next year. If he does run, the only thing he’ll accomplish is guaranteeing the election of David Vitter. Like his sister, Mitch Landrieu will be easily tied to Barack Obama if he tries to run statewide next year. (The President endorsed the mayor’s re-election in January and will still be president — and unpopular — next autumn.) That should make it easy for the mayor to keep his campaign promise to serve out his second term.
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