No Southern candidate?....on either ticket ? ---but especially in "The Party of the South"

[underpants]

Hey THE SOUTH (which I live in) How taken for granted do YOU feel now?

[cali]

1. I don't see what's so shocking about this.

[Honeycombe8]

2. I noticed that. No southerner? I heard on Joe Schnuck that that's a good thing....

to get the Republican Party away from being thought of as a southern party.

I think it's a mistake, actually. The southern Republicans will still vote their party, but I imagine they'll have a hard time relating to both of those yankees.

[HockeyMom]

3. But, but, but,

no candidate can possible win without the South! Isn't that what they say?

[Kaleva]

15. Ike won in '52 and '56 without the South.

Adlai Stevenson won the South in both of those elections but back then, Southerners were so anti-Repub, they'd vote for a liberal egg head over a war hero.

[Panasonic]

4. Hm. Let's look at some of the previous Republican candidates and VP's...

Romney (MI, CA, UT, NH, MA - do we even know where he is permanently living now?) and Ryan (WI)

Bush (TX), Cheney (TX, WY)

Dole (KS, SC), Kemp (NY)

Bush (TX), Quayle (IN)

Reagan (CA), Bush (TX)



Yeah, I'd say Romney is insulting the South. Repeatedly.

[LynneSin]

14. Better watch it - there are Texan DUers who will snap if you call the Bush's 'Texan'

They were carpetbaggers from Connecticut

[Pab Sungenis]

5. No Democrat can win the Deep South

and no Republican can lose the Deep South.

This isn't like 1992 when Clinton won down south; the seven original Confederate states are so radicalized that with the exception of Florida they will never turn blue.

Why pander to the South if you don't need them/can't have them?

[GaYellowDawg]

8. One exception

North Carolina seems to be getting a little more progressive. But South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Louisiana are Republican locks no matter who's on the ticket.

[Pab Sungenis]

9. I don't count Virginia or North Carolina as the Deep South.

Both of them were latecomers to the Confederacy, joining only after Fort Sumter.

[pstokely]

16. What is the deep South?

Members of the SEC?

[Pab Sungenis]

18. South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas.

Again, I don't count Florida since migration really changed the demographics there.

[pstokely]

19. But what about Missouri, Mizzou's now in the SEC?

nt

[Pab Sungenis]

22. Missouri is a swing state.

Always has been, throughout its history. A northern slave state, a slave state that stayed in the Union, quintessentially a border state in every sense of the word.

[bornskeptic]

25. Texas was one of the original confederate states. Arkansas was not.

Texas, which already has a majority minority population, will be at least purple, if not blue, in a cycle or two. Georgia may get there first. Obama got 47% of the vote in Georgia in 2008.

[Pab Sungenis]

29. Its Hispanic population is why I didn't include Texas.

Heck, Texas has always been a creation unto itself.

[yardwork]

13. North Carolina took a bad lurch to the right in 2010 - elected a Republican state legislature

for the first time in over 100 years. Will probably elect a Republican governor this fall. North Carolina is under enemy control.

[nc4bo]

20. If you'd seen the people at the polls in 2010

you'd known that we did not come out but they did, in spades.

I really believe 2010, at least here, was all about voter turn out or lack of it.

[yardwork]

21. I was at the polls in NC in 2010 voting Democratic. So were my friends.

I blame the white conservative Christian churches in North Carolina who told their congregations to go vote against abortion and gay people. Oh and vote against Obamacare. You know, go vote against that black guy in the White House, he's a Muslim. That's what got the right-wingers riled up.

[nc4bo]

24. Yessssssssssss yardwork!! Yes.

The chik fil a thing reminded of the turnout for our district's 2010 election. They got those white fundies out there and they did their Xian "duty" as if they were martyrs.

But still - I think if we had a strong GOTV for 2010 like we did for 08, things may have turned out differently....I did say maybe

( I find myself hating the people here because they vote for their god values over human values when they should be nearly similar)

[RagAss]

6. Why would the GOP care ?....

A carboard cut-out of Mussolini would win the southern states against President Obama.

[KansDem]

7. Wasn't this Nixon's "Southern Strategy?"

And yet, after 40 years of "Southern Strategy," the South still is financially dependent on Northern states:



Hey, "Welfare Queens!" Get to work!

[yardwork]

11. The only reason Florida wriggled into the blue column is because they turn down federal funds.

Florida's conscience-less Republican leaders are happy to turn down federal funds for poor people and education, so they just barely make it into the "we pay 97 cents for every federal dollar category."

[KansDem]

17. Kansas went "Tea Party" last Tuesday...

The governor, both Congressional senators and all four representatives--all Tea Party. State legislature moved toward Tea Party extremism.

Gov. Brownback has already turned down Federal funds--

Brownback: Kansas to Return $31.5 Million Health Exchange Grant

Kansas will return a $31.5 million grant to the federal government that aimed to help the state set up a health-insurance exchange, state officials announced on Tuesday.

GOP Gov. Sam Brownback said the state would return the money because of doubts surrounding the federal government’s ability to pay for the grant in the future. Kansas was one of six states to receive extra funding in February.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/healthcare/brownback-kansas-to-return-31-5-million-health-exchange-grant-20110809

Welcome to Teahawker Heaven!

[yardwork]

10. Delaware is South. Ish. Biden is from the south-ish region of the country.

[LynneSin]

12. There wasn't in 2008 unless you consider Arizona as part of 'The Party of the South'

Although there are many folks in Delaware that swear our state was part of the Confederacy but those people live down in Southern Delaware not up north like Biden.

[underpants]

27. Yeah I got that wrong

whoops

[LynneSin]

30. It's ok!

[Courtesy Flush]

23. And a couple of frat boys, at that

I don't know if they were really frat boys, but that's how they come off. They cannot relate to us in The South, and we can't relate to them. It will be a hard sell.

[underpants]

28. Ryan - Delta Tau Delta

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ryan

[Jennicut]

26. I'm from Connecticut, Delaware is south for me.

Seriously, not a big deal at all. The Repubs will keep the deep South anyway, as others have said.