Posted on 12/07/2014 5:30:03 PM PST by goldstategop
The values that are pre-eminent for Republican Party voters are probably freedom, independence, autonomy, limited government and self-reliance, and a strong belief in the powers of capitalism and a free market,” Cross said. “We see them in the South: the calls or less government, the call for people to take personal responsibility, the inveighing against the dependent class.”
And in Louisiana and other energy-producing states, he said, the perceived antipathy of national Democrats for the oil and gas industry helps swell Republican ranks.
“We’re looking at something more than just a bad year,” said Charlie Cook, the Shreveport native who writes the Cook Political Report in Washington, which tracks congressional politics.
“Democrats are effectively losing everything they could lose in the South,” retaining at the federal level only U.S. House seats in black-majority districts, such as the one represented by Cedric Richmond of New Orleans,
“Democrats are becoming a party of big cities and college towns, and not much beyond that,” Cook said. “For whatever reason, non-college-educated white voters are looking at the Democratic Party and they don’t see it as representing them.
“These people are kind of a no-fly zone for the Democratic Party.”
Because of the distribution of population across the country, the Democrats remain in a strong position when it comes to presidential elections. But as the makeup of the incoming Congress demonstrates, their claim on power in the House and Senate is more tenuous.
“There’s no way for the Democrats to be a national party without the South,” Stockley said. “How do they intend to take back the Senate? How do they intend to cut into the Republican majority in the House of Representatives?
“What are they going to do to win back Southern whites?”
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> postal employees
I know some postal employees in the high levels of the union and they are very strongly anti-Democrat. The democrats have lost them, too.
Some of it - Florida is its own animal due to "diversity".
“What happens to a political party brand that’s now hit rock bottom?”
It lurches left and pushes for revolution while it delegitimizes elections that don’t go their way.
IMHO
They are expendable to the Left wing controlled Democrats.
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