The political left has always had more in common with the Roundheads than the Cavs, and does now more than ever. Think about what a Puritan is: A loud obnoxious person from the northeast who thinks that he knows everything, thinks that everyone else is less "pure" and less intelligent than him, and spends his energies trying to tell everybody else how stupid they are while enforcing his dictates on how to live one's life upon them. Add the bitter hatred that they exhibit towards the sitting head of state and you've got a perfect description of none other than John F. Kerry.
Yep, here come the Dixiecrats, y'all.
Funny, but this is exactly what the northeastern libs think of us down here in the Bible Belt. Oh, and it's down here that you find tiny denominations like the Primitive Baptists who still adhere to the Calvinist theology of Cromwell.
Has no one on this forum ever heard of a little thing called "prohibition" that was championed by the ancestors of today's heartland conservatives and opposed by big city liberals?
I suppose you would prefer FDR to Herbert Hoover, GOPCap.
You wonder why they think of the Bible Belt like that? Take a hint: evangelical and fundamentalist christianity is NOT a derivative of New England puritanism (unitarianism, however, is).
Nope. FDR was an obnoxious and arrogant yankee who used the government to legislate how people should live their lives through a socialist disaster called the new deal. Hoover was problematic in his own right (The Hoover creations of Smoot Hawley and the RFC were not much better than many of Roosevelt's big government programs) but was definately the lesser of two evils.