Until the GOP drops the religious right, its gone.
The GOP doesn't have to drop the religious right, they just need to stop putting so much emphasis on social issues and governing by hostage crisis.
George HW Bush was a pragmatic conservative who won the last GOP landslide and carried much of the Northeast by convincing margins. That's what the Republican Party has to return to: pragmatic conservativism. We don't have to drop the Religious Right or become the Democratic Party. Just stop being ing insane about everything.
Winning elections and being conservative are not mutually exclusive.
No, the Democrats were BARELY out of the age of being the party of the South. Hell, Carter even brought it back for a little while. New England, and the Northeast as a whole, votes for the Democrats because they are seen as more liberal. And that's that.
