Yankee Republicans on last legs

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Between the GOP and the bloc south's competition/splitting the social conservative vote the net effect would be to send into congress a large number of liberals(a united liberal vote) from the south.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Not quite. I see the bloc south splitting the dixie social conservative vote between economic left/right and the social moderates/liberals going to the dems. Also I don't see a new left party emerging. A party that's left on social issues but not jacobin/radical(advocating civil unions instead of gay marriage, taking a compromise position on abortion etc) and center-right on economcis owuld be more likely.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Actually I was thinkling the moderate libertarian party would get the areas you refer to along with northeast/urban areas that sent in yankee/gypsy moth/rockefeller republicans to either house before the realignments of 1968-1974, 1980 and 1992.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

My projection has the dems moving more to the left. Basically they fully become the party of racial minority interest, postmodern lifestyle interests, nonchristians and genral leftist elemetns.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Or the Bloc Southern pulls off total domination like in today's Quebec. Add to that the NDP Greenies in the NE from ag's post...yeah, we could pull off our variant of Canadian party politics.

Nice as long as they want out of the Union like the Quebequois I'm down.  Please.. I'll even be the first to donate to get rid of them.

Agree. Especially if they take the inner city blacks and mormons from the rump us with them.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

I was presuming a bloc south MORE extreme than the national GOP on social/cultural issues while more protectionist/populist on economics(favoring things like farm subsidies, jobs programs and taxes to soak the rich. NOT liberal redistributionism)

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

I'm not saying they'd be more conservative than southern republicans socially its just that unlike the GOP they wouldn't do any pretense towards moderation.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

Block South would be able to appeal to populist southerners so I doubt their position on cultural issues would cost them.

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Yep. Now if this pro-independence party could take the south of the union that would be an improvement. IT would castrate social conservatism in the US for all time.