Can you count? Only THREE of the Democrat Senators (out of 15 in office) had a conservative rating identical to NEW ENGLAND Republicans, let alone the conservative ones! The REST of the southern Democrat senators (all twelve of them) are MORE LIBERAL THAN JEFFORDS. Why do you think a whooping THREE southern Democrats means the whole region is "usually conservative"? If you can locate a MAJORITY of southern Democrats that are "more conservative" than the Republicans we have here, by all means, let me know. Good luck.
Besides, your MODERATE Democrat Senators aren't even AS conservative as the "moderate" Republicans we have here in the midwest. I'll take Fitzgerald here (ACU 88%) over Zig Zag Zell Miller anytime. At least Fitzgerald won't vote to clone humans, keep Daschel, the marriage tax, the dairy cartel, and all the other liberal garbage your "moderate" southern Democrats support.
Or do you need me to list all the other office holders?
I guarantee you that most of the southern Democrat Governors will not be "more conservative" than Midwestern Republican governors (except maybe the soon-to-indicted RINO here in Illinois, and he's already more liberal than half the Illinois Democrats).The southern Democrat congressman CERTAINLY will not be "more conservative" than the voting records of Republicans up here. Here in "liberal" Illinois, I'll take Crane, Mazullo, Ewing, Hyde, Smirkus over ANY Democrat congressman they have in Georgia, Virginia, and so forth.