Electoral College

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Actually some of Gore's best counties were rural

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Actually one of the lowest turnout groups are poor, white, rural southerners.
Turnout is always higher amoung rich, white, suburban southerners and blacks.

I blame gerrymandering...

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They are a dangerous group to vote! They are politically like NASCAR dads, which in my book means stupid, rebellious, and intolerant. I was angered how Dean's statement on them was deamed too controversial.

Say what you want about 'em, call them what you want, but remember if it wasn't for them, the Governers of Louisiana and Virginia would be Republicans.

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Look Zachman... whatever you think of rural Southerners you have to accept this simple fact:

A poorly educated, Baptist, White, unemployed former textile worker living in an a pokey and badly built wooden house in South Carolina is FAR more likely to vote for Kerry than a well educated, affluent, white collar office worker with a nice car and a big house in Cobb County, GA

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I'm not saying he will vote for Kerry, but he might think about it (he will probably abstain), but thought of *not* voting for Bush would not have even crossed the other guy's mind.

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I'm a part of the U.K, which is very similer to West Virginia (I also know people there).

WV is covered by the Appalachians.

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The GOP has never nominated a Southerner for President...

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Ah! If we accept that G.W.Bush is a Texan, he still isn't a Southerner.
He grew up in Midland, which is about as "Southern" as the state he was born in (CT).
Texas is a strange state... most of East TX is Southern certainly, but West Texas isn't.
Besides, Bush's image revolves around the whole Western/Cowboy thing.

BTW only one President has come from the Deep South (Jimmy Carter).
Zachary Taylor counts as a Virginian (did he ever even visit LA?)

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Andrew Jackson was born in South Carolina.

True... but I'll always think of him as from Tennessee

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He was born in the south. That makes him a southerner in my book.

Aaah... but how do you define the South? Is all of Texas Southern? (No... but where does the South end and the West begin?)

Besides living somewhere for a week doesn't count... I lived in London for a week and never felt like a Londoner...
Ike always played up the whole mid-westish thing anyhow...

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Arkansas is not like TX or OK