Southern Jewish vote

[TransfemmeGoreVidal]

Any information on the Jewish vote in the south? The only anecdotal example I have is my mother's side of the family who mostly emigrated from Germany to Texas and New Orleans in the mid 19th century. Most of them are still Democrars today though a few have become neoconish Republicans in recent years who oddly like Huckabee.

[Indy Texas]

Anecdotal: Of the Jewish families I knew growing up, the ones from Texas/the South (or that had been there for a couple or more generations) were generally AIPAC Republicans (stranger still was one family that were actually Evangelical Christian converts but still identified very strongly as "ethnically/culturally Jewish"); the ones where the parents were from the North or major cities tended to be run-of-the-mill liberal Democrats.

[RINO Tom]

Not sure how Mrs. Daisy voted...

[NerdyBohemian]

There are Jewish people in the south? I mean outside of Florida?

[SATW]

There are Jewish people in the south? I mean outside of Florida?

Yes, ever heard of these foreign places called Atlanta and Dallas?

[Brittain33]

There are Jewish people in the south? I mean outside of Florida?

There used to be small Jewish communities all over the South, down even to small cities in Mississippi. Most of them have dissipated with economic changes. Here's a documentary from 2003 I saw on this:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365746/

Nowadays I'd guess that most Jews in the non-Florida South are youngish transplants from the north to places like Atlanta, Raleigh-Durham, and Dallas.

[Horus]

More secular and a bit less of an Israel fetish than New York Jews. Here in Atlanta I'd guess we're 75% Dem or so.

[TDAS04]

There are Jewish people in the south? I mean outside of Florida?

South Carolina had the largest Jewish population in colonial America. 

[VPH]

The only Southern Jew I know is from Lufkin, Texas. She's a pro-Palestine, Green Party supporter.

[Zioneer]

There are Jewish people in the south? I mean outside of Florida?

South Carolina had the largest Jewish population in colonial America. 

Just ask Judah P. Benjamin.

[Torie]

There are Jewish people in the south? I mean outside of Florida?

There used to be small Jewish communities all over the South, down even to small cities in Mississippi. Most of them have dissipated with economic changes. Here's a documentary from 2003 I saw on this:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365746/

Nowadays I'd guess that most Jews in the non-Florida South are youngish transplants from the north to places like Atlanta, Raleigh-Durham, and Dallas.

My parents had a black maid from Greenville, Mississippi. For some reason she hated LBJ, and voted for Goldwater. She loved Bobby Kennedy however. Anyway, when in Greenville, as a young woman, she worked as a maid for a Jewish family, whom she said were very kind to her. I think that is why,  despite living in Mississippi during the Jim Crow era, she was not resentful of white people. So indirectly, my family benefitted from the phenomenon you describe.

[Gass3268]

I know Memphis has a significant Jewish population, hence Steven Cohen.