Why is the South so conservative?

[HAnnA MArin County]

Simply put, racism.

The Realignment of the Solid South transformed the area from solidly Democratic to now almost dominated by Republicans. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, passed by congressional Democrats and signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johsnon, substantially transformed the voting habits of the South as is evident today. You see some of the most racially polarized voting in the Deep South in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama where there's a white man's party and the colored folks' party. Shouldn't be that way, but that's Dixie for you.

I think it is mostly due to religious fundamentalism. Outside of Louisiana, the Bible Belt encompasses all of the South to where you can't blink without seeing a church. The Republican Party does so well in the South by playing the fear card and injecting the culture/social issues of God, guns and gays to distract their voters from the real issues. The base of the Republican Party is, after all, in the South which has the least educated populace in the nation. Stupid is as stupid does. I can't believe the traditional Confederate-flag waving pickup-driving rednecks in the South actually vote Republican because they support giving tax breaks to all 10 of the millionaires below the Mason-Dixon line. No, they vote Republican because the Democrats want to kill babies, destroy the sanctity of marriage and take away our guns and Bibles.