Is the Republican's problem that they're too Southern?

[Rockefeller GOP]

Maybe not "too Southern" but definitely - at least in image to independents - too culturally conservative and not tolerant enough, and a lot of that has been a result of pandering to social conservatives, largely located in Southern states.  JMO.

[Rockefeller GOP]

The biggest problem is narcissism. They're just not very nice people.

Are you an actual republican?

I had the same question.........I feel like several of the blue avatars on here are 100% ironic, given that I am to the right of a good number of them.

Depends how you are to the right.  Your social score is well to the right of mine, but your fiscal score is well to my left.

[Rockefeller GOP]

Almost every Republican I've ever have a lengthy discussion with about politics:
as soon as I bring out the flashy math and statistics, they retreat to quoting the bible and/or the constitution or saying the numbers are made-up.

And you have to remember that I live in a tea party hotbed.

Your last statement says it all.

[Rockefeller GOP]

2005 : Democrats can't win in the heartland of America as they are too beholden to their base of Liberal coastal elitists. If Democrats want to win over the South and heartland, they cant be nominating  a French speaking out of touch Liberal like John Kerry. The only guy who can win will be Mark Warner. Listen to the DLC damnit.

While Kerry was certainly painted that way, I think the ironic truth is that no one thinks liberals are as "elite" as liberals do...

[Rockefeller GOP]

The paradigm here is that the areas with all of the votes (CA, NY, NJ, IL) are in the north and have for a long time resisted voting for the party that the south prefers out of cultural differences.

It's not a new idea.

I'd say it's a heck of a lot more complicated than that.  MS, AL and SC had no problem coexisting with VT, ME and NH politically for most of the period 1968-1988.

[Rockefeller GOP]

The paradigm here is that the areas with all of the votes (CA, NY, NJ, IL) are in the north and have for a long time resisted voting for the party that the south prefers out of cultural differences.

It's not a new idea.

I'd say it's a heck of a lot more complicated than that.  MS, AL and SC had no problem coexisting with VT, ME and NH politically for most of the period 1968-1988.

While they did for a time jump on the same political tickets, they never "coexisted politically," and never will.

Not to mention that those weren't the states I named.

I know, and my only broad point is that there doesn't have to be a "South" and "North" party, even though both parties trended oppositely during the '90s and 2000s.