Didn’t know liberalism was a regional thing. What explains California? Funny thing is the CSA were all a bunch of Democrats.
It must really suck for them to realize that their ancestors were democrats - their G-Grandfathers, their Grandfathers, perhaps even their fathers. Yes, the southron aristocracy were democrats. It was democrats that brought us the Civil War, it was democrats that created the Jim Crow laws and the KKK, and democrats that initially fought the civil rights struggle and then turned around and took credit for it.
There are liberals in all states...they dominate in the north east and the west coast. The west coast is a relatively new experience. The civil war was fought over the north trying to impose their will....economically...over the south. Before you start slavery was an issue but not the driving force and the south was wrong on that subject. As was the case then the northeastern liberal media and politicians are once again trying to impose their will on the rest of the country. Comparing democrats and republicans of the 1860s with today is foolish. Both of those partys were far superior to what we have today and both were predominately conservative compared to today. Neither of them would have even considered an attack on the 2nd amendmendment....the memories of a tyrantical king was still fresh on their minds. Like it or not the idea of personal freedom, responsibility and and fear of a tyrantical government is stronger in the south and midwest than the west coast and northeast. One has only to look at the politicians still being elected to see that truth. Here in Texas we are very sceptical of our leaders, so much so we only allow them to meat every other year and we judge them not on the amount of legislation but what they do to advance the state economically. We also have liberals just as stupid as anywhere else we just don’t have as many!!!