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

[Indy Texas]

Seems to turn off Northeast and West Coast voters.

What's worse, some regions of the South such as Northern Virginia and South Florida don't even share a southern culture anymore.

The focus has been on gay marriage lately and how it's wrecking the GOP with moderate voters, but maybe the bigger issue is the overall culture Republicans are perceived to have.

Um, the current GOP Senate candidates are not focusing on gay marriage at all, at least based on their current ads and campaign.

It's not that the candidates are focusing on it. It's that the issue is being talked about in society as a whole a lot and the GOP is decidedly on the wrong side of the issue.

Are there any Senate candidates running this year who have unequivocally supported the right of all Americans to civil marriage?

[Indy Texas]

The South definitely is the one region where the really hard-right brand of Republicanism is politically dominant in most of its states (and it's hard to separate it from right-wing evangelical Christianity-another liability for the GOP nationally in the 2010s).

Sure, Kansas or Michigan or whatever have elected a lot of Republicans into office, but the Plains and certainly the Upper Midwest  are not totally dominated by "Teavangelicals" to the extent much of the  the South is. And arguably, Southern-style Republicanism incentives other states'  Republicans to move to the Right (since the South has a lot of gravity in the Republican primaries).

You're telling me the Kansas GOP isn't dominated by right-wing Christian nutjobs? Who is their governor, again?