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Are we watching the demise of the Solid South?
Election Projection ^ | August 17, 2016 | Scott Elliott

Posted on 08/17/2016 1:06:35 PM PDT by SMGFan

Over the last 30 years or so, one aspect of presidential elections has been pretty consistent. The GOP nominee usually doesn’t have to break a sweat to carry the southern states. From 1980 through 2004, with two notable exceptions – Jimmy Carter’s home state of Georgia in 1980 and a few states during southern-boy Bill Clinton’s two runs – Republicans enjoyed complete dominance in the swath of states from Virginia to Texas

That may be changing. This year’s battle between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is unusual to say the least. Not in my lifetime have two candidates with unfavorables as high as these contested the White House. It’s been well-documented how disliked the pair of nominees are. Unfortunately for conservatives like me, it appears, at least for the time being, that Trump is the more disliked of the two. And we’re seeing one affect of his dismal likeability in recent polling data.

(Excerpt) Read more at electionprojection.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: Georgia; US: North Carolina; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2016elections; redstates
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1 posted on 08/17/2016 1:06:35 PM PDT by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

NC listed as weak Dem?

Only if this election is a repeat of 2008 where enough “conservatives” bolted to Barr and handed the state to Obama.


2 posted on 08/17/2016 1:09:56 PM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: SMGFan

Affect or effect?


3 posted on 08/17/2016 1:11:42 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: PeteB570

No, we are not seeing the erosion of the Solid South. This Sh-t is getting old


4 posted on 08/17/2016 1:12:14 PM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: PeteB570

My worry is about my state, Virginia. Northern Virginia is so infested with government workers that it is hard to overcome.


5 posted on 08/17/2016 1:12:58 PM PDT by mrs9x
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To: SMGFan

Yes, the Solid South is going the way of the Dodo. Thank both the Rs and Ds who adore unfettered illegal immigration. Nov. 8, 2016 is our final shot to hold on to our nation.


6 posted on 08/17/2016 1:14:05 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: SMGFan

My Father was a yellow dog democrat. He would vote for a yellow dog rather than a republican.

Jimmy Carter converted him. He voted for Reagan and never looked back.


7 posted on 08/17/2016 1:17:25 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: SMGFan

Gaslighting


8 posted on 08/17/2016 1:17:55 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: SMGFan

The real issue is the immigration of Leftists to Southern urban centers, starting to outnumber the “native Southerners” occupying the remaining 98% of the region’s geography.


9 posted on 08/17/2016 1:20:19 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: SMGFan

Lot of illegal here in Ga...it wouldn’t shock me to turn blue. Especially middle Ga.


10 posted on 08/17/2016 1:21:41 PM PDT by wyowolf (Be ware when the preachers take over the Republican party...)
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To: PeteB570

NC and FL are purple. The rest of the South is Red.


11 posted on 08/17/2016 1:22:24 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: PeteB570

25 New Yorkers a day are moving to NC, and have been doing so for twenty years.


12 posted on 08/17/2016 1:22:44 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: JonPreston

Then it’ll be 2020, then 2024, and on and on.
Liberalism-socialism-communism is like a creeping virus slime, just smearing itself into an even larger area, everytime you try to wipe it up.
Seeing the American electorate become so corrupted and so infected, so quickly, is a stunner.


13 posted on 08/17/2016 1:22:57 PM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: wyowolf

Why do you think Obama is cramming all of those refugees into certain parts of the country?


14 posted on 08/17/2016 1:23:26 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SMGFan

CNN, from Atlanta, is feeding the Georgia is Going Hillary meme. WSB dutifully reports it as news.

I don’t believe it.


15 posted on 08/17/2016 1:24:20 PM PDT by freedomlover
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To: SMGFan

No

The South will go Trump


16 posted on 08/17/2016 1:25:02 PM PDT by Nifster (Ignore all polls. Get Out The Vote)
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To: SMGFan

Heh-heh

I can remember when the Solid South was all Democrat

For the times, they are a-changin’


17 posted on 08/17/2016 1:26:31 PM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician, any politician, just say, "Remember Ceaucescu"))
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To: Georgia Girl 2

I live in Florida’s First Congressional District. It is generally regarded as the most conservative in the nation.


18 posted on 08/17/2016 1:28:47 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: yarddog

Where is that? I’m from Jax. originally. The Northern part of FL and the panhandle are still conservative.


19 posted on 08/17/2016 1:31:17 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: ctdonath2

We let in too many Yankees and illegals. Happily no one wants to live in Alabama. It’s real hot, full of bugs and rednecks. You all just forget about us, you will be happier elsewhere.


20 posted on 08/17/2016 1:31:40 PM PDT by Himyar (Sessions: the only real man in D.C.)
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