Comments on: Sun Belt Migration Good News for Republicans http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/sun_belt_migration_good_news_for_republicans/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:37:08 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Brandon Jaynes http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/sun_belt_migration_good_news_for_republicans/comment-page-1/#comment-51284 Brandon Jaynes Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:20:17 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/?p=11274#comment-51284 Most of the Democrats I meet here in the South are very conservative. Nine of my father's brothers and sisters are democrats, mainly because my grandfather was a democrat. Of course, at this time, democrats were much more conservative. When they talk about what they believe instead of attacking Bush, for example, they seem to spout the Republican mantra. Democrats should fear the South because the liberal wing of the Democrat party is hard to find around here. Take the Republican Senatorial pickups this past election. I believe it was Louisiana who voted a Republican in for the first time since Reconstruction. It seems that since the media has gotten slightly more balanced in the past decade that the South has been voting to the right--not moving right, just voting right. Just my amateur observations. Most of the Democrats I meet here in the South are very conservative. Nine of my father's brothers and sisters are democrats, mainly because my grandfather was a democrat. Of course, at this time, democrats were much more conservative. When they talk about what they believe instead of attacking Bush, for example, they seem to spout the Republican mantra. Democrats should fear the South because the liberal wing of the Democrat party is hard to find around here.

Take the Republican Senatorial pickups this past election. I believe it was Louisiana who voted a Republican in for the first time since Reconstruction. It seems that since the media has gotten slightly more balanced in the past decade that the South has been voting to the right--not moving right, just voting right.

Just my amateur observations.

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