Exactly. The South has always been the center of conservatism in America, while the North has always been the liberal progressive hub.
And those solid Conservatives (both Christian and Jews) who populate the South are the descendents of those "evil scum slave-holding rebels" that FReeper crim alluded to.
So, crim, if those "rebels" were so dastardly, just how did their offspring become the pro-God, pro-life, pro-gun, anti-sodomy people that form the backbone of America? And if the north was so righteous, why has that region become this nation's bastion of liberalism?
Which is why they turned out in such vast numbers for stalwart conservatives like William Jennings Bryant, FDR, Adlai Stevenson, and Jimmy Carter?