3 Jul 2023 10:20 am
Demonrats simply refuse to accept that 90-95% of voters think only of themselves. People have been saying "all politics are local" for almost a century for a reason. It is rare that one issue becomes, and stays, in the forefront of the voters minds long enough that it changes the "local" balance of power. It is almost universally a multitude of reasons that cause a geographic area to "change colors".maineman » 03 Jul 2023, 9:57 am » wrote: ↑ History shows what the parties USED to be. Current events show what the parties have become.
The south used to be solid blue and now it is dead red. The folks who created Jim Crow didn't all LEAVE and their children did not all become tolerant non-racist democrats up north. All the abolitionist republicans that filled New England before the civil war did not all move down south of the Mason-Dixon line. People didn't change, but their party affiliations certainly did. There was a good reason that Ronnie Reagan kicked off his presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi and made "states rights" a theme of his very first campaign speech there.