Michael Hoover wrote:
stuff on south is particularly interesting - more affluent white southerners (many of whom are transplants from elsewhere) have become republicans more so than white working people...
I thought it was interesting when he pointed out that in the old days, Southern blacks were forbidden to vote, and poor whites didn't vote, so the Southern vote was dominated by upscale whites who voted for reactionary Dems. They've since become Rep.
Doug