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Originally Posted by Joshua G
as far as im concerned, Lincoln shoulda let the confederate states go. why? cause every divisive issue in this country is defined by red states & blue states, & not coincidentally are the same states that fought each other in the civil war. so this culture clash between yankees & rednecks goes far beyond race. it goes to religion, taxes, abortion, everything.
let the fucking dumb rednecks have their god guns & honey boo boo.
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Yeah, but at that time the "red" states and President was the North and Pres. Lincoln
The South was the "blue" states up until Pres. Reagan ran for office and effectively got voters in the South to vote Republican for the first time.
I was raised a Fla. cracker and have vivid memories of both my great-grandfathers and both my grandfathers discussing politics in the 1960's and 1970's. They were very racist people and like almost everyone in the South back then...hard core Democrats.
At that time the Republican party was still the elite party of the NorthEastern U.S. (hard to imagine that today). The "Rockefeller" Republicans.
And the South had always been Democrat (the Democrats were pro-slavery in the civil war).
Reagan's political strategy to regain the South was to embrace the religious right ("Moral Majority") and then point out how "liberal" and "soft" the Democrats were.
That swung the South over. And it's been that way now for 35 years.
EDIT: And interestingly enough...people always equate the South with white "rednecks"...but there are more black people in the South than there are in the North.