Posted on 11/28/2010 4:09:44 PM PST by Hojczyk
For Democrats in the South, the most ominous part of a disastrous year may not be what happened on Election Day but what has happened in the weeks since.
After suffering a historic rout — in which nearly every white Deep South Democrat in the U.S. House was defeated and Republicans took over or gained seats in legislatures across the region — the party’s ranks in Dixie have thinned even further.
In Georgia, Louisiana and Alabama, Democratic state legislators have become Republicans, concluding that there is no future in the party that once dominated the so-called Solid South.
That the old Confederacy is shifting toward the GOP is, of course, nothing new. Southerners have been voting for Republican presidents, senators and governors for decades.
But what this year’s elections, and the subsequent party switching, have made unambiguously clear is that the last ramparts have fallen and political realignment has finally taken hold in one of the South’s last citadels of Democratic strength: the statehouses.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
*Phew* For a second there I thought this thread was about Korea.
Good for you guys.That will do more to hold the line than you know.We just had our first election here in Georgia where it was mandated everyone had to show ID to vote.The communist got their asses handed to them.I love OBUMMER dont you?
We just had a family move back to new hamshire ,from here in Georgia, this week.The voted for obama and they both lost their respective jobs.I feel sorry for the kids though.
“In the United States, the conservative coalition was an unofficial Congressional coalition bringing together the conservative majority of the Republican Party and the conservative, mostly Southern, minority of the Democratic Party. It was influential in the United States Congress from 1937 to 1961 and remained a political force until the mid 1980s, eventually dying out in the 1990s.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_coalition
HEAR,HEAR!
There it is. Thank you.
The chart showing the polling effect of the Sept 18th run on the bank can be seen at http://www.pollster.com/polls/us/08-us-pres-ge-mvo.php?nr=1
Dogged determination! Thats what I like to see and hear.Good job!
YOU BETCHA
Thanks. A picture is worth a thousand words, and that one is worth even more than that.
What the graph can’t show, though, is the destabilization that has come with that blue line. It’s even beyond what statistical numbers can show, except maybe the huge democrat losses this election.
I used to not understand how one day could change everything in an economy. What could be so different one day than it was the day before? I don’t think it happens in one day, but there’s a tipping point at which everybody all of a sudden recognizes the vulnerability. Our entire economic system is built on trust. If people can trust the system they can rebuild. If not, they will not rebuild even if they could, because they don’t know whether everything will be taken away from them anyway. And that’s where we’re at.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac built an economy on the lie of calling unstable loans “secured”. As if reality changes just by somebody SAYING it’s changed. As if you have more real value just because you print more money. The whole thing is just a big lie, and the people who broke the system with their lies are still doing it, as if the lies are the cure rather than the disease.
These politicians mock our trust, except when they need to beg for our votes. Once they got what they wanted from us they treat us like a one-night stand. But trust is literally what runs our economy. When business owners have no expectation that government will let them succeed, they will not trust to hire people.
Trust is a vital ingredient but it’s hard to chart it with stats. That’s where I think we’re really hurting, and the glib politicians like Pelosi just don’t seem to get it. It’s like they don’t speak our language.
The Good Lord made and Blessed me as a Woman, sorry if I did not make that clear. I traveled through the South a while ago and my following observations: People were down home, Sweet and Friendly, the Men were courteous and polite and they Love Jesus Christ, which I say a big thumbs up on!!! The people of the South will always be special to me.
Remember this:
Daddy was a veteran, a southern democrat
They oughta get a rich man to vote like that
It workes exactly like obama and the Democrats desin=gned it to.
So, whats keepin ya?:)
Because My Husband, who I love dearly is a New York City Liberal. He loves the City.
Exactly. Why should Southerners vote for a party that palpably hates their guts?
So, why are American Blacks such left wingers? They're practically mirror reflections of white Southerners in their Biblicism. Yet not only do they vote for far left candidates, their churches seem to produce only far leftists so far as politics is concerned.
You have your work cut out for you then.:)Take care FRiend.
deaf ears my friend
many here like the Glenn Beck Cliff Notes version of history
it’s just simpler and easier to swallow
inaccurate?
who knew?
Those county posts are even more stubborn than state legislatures.
Many a legislative chamber once rat a few cycles ago they now have no chance in. Okalahoma, Missouri, the rats ca fagetabout them.
We still need to bring hope and change to LA, MS, and AR (and poor WV). LA and MS have elections next year.
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