Either way, the good folks of the South need to show the Tea Party the door. Otherwise, the South is just going to live up to its negative stereotypes.
It's the Rino's that are being shown the door, the tea party isn't going anywhere. As a whole the movement is not extreme or embracing the types of elements the left would like to label it.
The RINO's, largely in the Northeast and Far West are becoming Democrats -- and there are few RINO's in the South except in places of mas Yankee settlement (like Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, and maybe Greater Atlanta). The Tea Party is as extreme as ever, and it willingly does what tycoons, executives, and big landowners tell it to do. Barack Obama is a horrible match for Tennessee outside of Memphis, Nashville, and some college towns. He is the ultimate intellectual, cosmopolitan, and city-slicker; he has no idea of how to win in the rural South.
The Obama vote will be not much larger than the African-American vote in Tennessee.
