smoltchanov
Junior Chimp
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« on: November 02, 2016, 02:05:04 AM » |
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« edited: November 02, 2016, 04:05:14 AM by smoltchanov »
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I always separated southern states in 2 groups: one, more mobile, with heavy inmigration, more quickly developing economy, and so on - like Texas and Florida (add to this (because of "special circumstances") Virginia and South Carolina with their very conservative leading politicians, like members of Harry Byrd "machine" in former and Thurmond and Watson in later, and still - better development then in most southern states) embraced conservatism earlier and more easily. For the time being it was a "Democratic conservatism", but soon people in this camp began to feel more comfortably with much more conservative in general Republican party and realignment -began. Another - Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee (except eastern part), even Oklahoma (with Georgia and North Carolina located somewhere "in between" for a long time, but now - located somewhere between "southern" politics and "national" one) were deeply parochial and socially conservative, but mostly populist economicaly, and held their Democratic allegiance longer (especially on state and local level, where there was a lot of "suitable" politicians). West Virginia (mix of the South and MidWest with a little bit of NorthEast) was in the second camp - with relatively srtong unions, fond memories of Franklin Roosevelt and so on. Until recently. So, Jay Rockefeller was close to ideal candidate for 1970th - 1980th, quite acceptablre - even for 2000th, and so on. But - not now....
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