Southern Republicans and their views

[Beezer]

I'm currently working at my University on trying to assess to what extent regional polarization is evident within the House GOP conference (as part of a wider project on how the Southern realignment has impacted the GOP and dragged it to the right). Right now I've looked at a couple of contentious votes in which significant parts of the GOP voted against a bill to assess where exactly the opposition came from: fiscal cliff vote (in which a majority of non-Southern Republicans for example voted for the deal while 86% of Southern Republicans opposed it), debt ceiling vote of 2011, payroll tax cut extension vote 2012, votes on the RSC budgets 2013 and 12. Can anyone perhaps point me to some other votes in recent memory in which such a split was evident within the House conference? Thanks.

[Miles]

For some reason, I thought DADT repeal would be a good example, but that was mostly Blue Dogs defecting from the Democrats to vote against it.

[Miles]

37 of the 67 Republicans that voted against Sandy aid were from the south.

[Beezer]

Thanks, exactly the kind of vote I am looking for.

[Beezer]

So....does anybody else know some other major votes? Also had a look at the second Sandy vote for which support was far lower in the 11 Old Confederacy (around 13%) states than outside the South (around 26%) (also the GOP was of course in general not all that fond of it).