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I believe you but the anecdote is irrelevent.

This is actually an article addressing demographics and I am simply pointing out that I think the author is basically incorrect as to the composition of the Republican Party. It is primarily white and christian. Again, this is probably not the case in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Perhaps Tom Sowell or Ben Wattenberg will write a little more about which groups are voting for which party. As I understand it, the demographic group the author describes in the article is not large enough to make a difference.

Time will tell though: If the Reagan-type candidates begin to lose to the type of person described in the article, I'd take another look. I think Bill Schneiders analysis of the election is correct and it points to the reverse of what the author posits.

I am simply pointing out that I think the author is basically incorrect as to the composition of the Republican Party. It is primarily white and christian. Again, this is probably not the case in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Perhaps Tom Sowell or Ben Wattenberg will write a little more about which groups are voting for which party

Your post is so rich in irony that it could serve as an instant cure for anemia.

The presidential election was won by less than 200 votes. At this time with the country in the mid point of a major transition no group is too small to matter. As the author points out, if the GOP were primarily a white Christian party it would be toast, that's just not a large enough percentage of America to win elections by its self. This group is the Reagan-type candidates. People that in some ways were associated with the Democratic Party and liberalism but have seen things change over there and can't take it any more. Welcome to changing times, the definitions of 20 or even 40 years ago simply don't work any more. Things change, the definition of positions change. Remember, the GOP started the first conservation movement in this country. The world's not made of single issue voters.

Frequency of "South Park" viewing was not examined.

The article wasn't saying that all "southpark republicans" watch southpark.

From the article:

...Yet in spite of its coarse language and base humor, the show persuasively communicates the Republican position on many issues, including hate crime legislation ("a savage hypocrisy"), radical environmentalism, and rampant litigation by ambitious trial lawyers. In one episode, industrious gnomes pick apart myopic anti-corporate rhetoric and teach the main characters about the benefits of capitalism....They strongly believe in liberty, personal responsibility, limited government, and free markets. However, they do not live by the edicts of political correctness. ...

The RINOs mentioned in the article don't even favor the above.