Neo-Confederate Origins of Today's Tea Party Movement

[Kevin]

The Tea Party is more of a Red State movement then anything else, as much of it's leadership like other forumites pointed out is from outside the South. Even though the movement as a whole may have a strong base in the South.

Furthermore even though the Tea Party does represent a large fraction of the GOP base at the moment, the candidates it's backed have ranged across the ideological spectrum from extremely conservative/libertarian i.e. Sharron Angle/Rand Paul to quite moderate like Chris Christie or Scott Brown.