Rural Left vs Urban Right

[RINO Tom]

Republican party. Pls let this happen.

Amen.  Also, with the 1896 mention, it's not like there hasn't always been a very big Democratic presence in the major urban areas of our country, dating back to NYC and Boston a LONG time ago...

[RINO Tom]

Republican Party

Base: Urban (I don't think modern urban areas are compatible with conservatism), suburban, managerial class, small business owners, Whites with a college education, Mainline Protestants, Irreligious, White collar (despite popular belief, I don't actually care about this), upper class African Americans and Hispanics, Asians; New England, West Coast (the politics of the West Coast aren't those of people who would be Republicans if they weren't so intolerant ... they're just politics of the far left), Mid-Atlantic

Ideology: Centrism, Classical Liberalism, Conservative Liberalism

Policies: Pro-choice (would prefer big tent, but that might not be realistic), legalize euthanasia, legalize marijuana, pro-gay marriage, mixed on gun rights, pro-immigration, pro-business, tax cuts and deregulation, balancing budget, right to work, supports business-government environmental collaboration, internationalist foreign policy with mixed interventionism/non-interventionism, supports free trade

Since others have edited stuff, this is my ideal.

[RINO Tom]

The one that doesn't try to gloss over its anti-poor, anti-masses agenda with liberal stances on the same kinds of social issues that IRL, have somehow become critically important litmus tests for 21st century Democrats.

In the 20th century, both parties used to be pro-choice and support the Equal Rights Amendment.

Is there really evidence of this?  Sure, (at least on the surface) it seems there used to be more pro-choice Republicans and pro-life Democrats, but I'm not sure there was ever a time where there was a national consensus that abortion should be legal ... I might be wrong, I guess.