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...I SEC primaries - they are proportional.

That is not quite accurate. it is proportional but only for those that go over 15% or 20% (20% here in GA). This will help to cull the herd.

The 2016 Super Tuesday will be held on March 1 with a certainty of Trump gaining ground.

Winners-take-most states are those with proportional allocation and a 15 percent or 20 percent threshold to qualify for delegates. Strictly proportional states have proportional allocations with either no thresholds or low ones (Iowa)—typically, 5 percent or 10 percent.
Georgia, a winners-take-most state with a 20 percent threshold, illustrates the formidable obstacles the establishment candidates face. Only Trump, with 39 percent, and Cruz, with 29 percent, would qualify for delegates, splitting the state's 76 delegates between them. So far, none of the establishment candidates are close to meeting Georgia's 20 percent threshold.
The Georgia scenario will play out in six states holding primaries on March 1, otherwise known as the SEC Primary. These six states—Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas—will allocate 422 delegates by winners-take-most rules, and all are conservative states in which establishment candidates will likely struggle to meet the thresholds.

The Republican Establishment's Delegate Problem

I believe that in most of the South we are raging Nationalists with a "Yuge" dose of Jingoism to "Trump" the Cruz supporters.

In 2013, 44% of all military recruits came from the South, despite it having only 36% of the country's 18-24 year-old civilian population.

http://www.ijreview.com/2014/07/158892-military-pride-states-boast-highest-enlistment-rates-america/

Most attribute the Southern radical patriotism to our Scots-Irish heritage. There is possibly some need to prove our loyalty to America after the police action of a century and a half ago.

Most of the Scots-Irish who settled in Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and throughout the Deep South were Protestants, specifically Presbyterians, who fled the Ulster region of Northern Ireland, McCarthy reports.
Many of the Scots-Irish died of starvation and illness while sailing the Atlantic, and those who made it to America were pushed to the undeveloped border regions.
From their ranks came such towering American personalities as Davy Crockett, Andrew Jackson, Mark Twain, William Faulkner and George S. Patton.

Scots-Irish roots run deep in the South