The South

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That would be myself. It's true that my comment about the South being synonymous with Baptist pluralities was a stereotype and not entirely true. The examples you pointed out are valid and some of them were interesting. But the fact that you can only point to a handful of counties, concentrated around the Delta region, as counterexamples does not entirely invalidate my original point. Plus, Southern culture is not the same as Cajun culture. The best you can say is that the latter is variation of the former, and expression of the South's diversity.

That does not make Maryland a part of the south. Wallace's win in the primary here was only 39%, on the same day that he was winning 51% in Michigan. This was his best day of the entire campaign season because the primary occurred days after he had been shot, and law and order/crime issues were high on the public's mind even before the shooting. A great deal of people switched to Wallace due to sympathy. Wallace had been campaigning in Maryland vigorously over the course of at least three weeks. Wallace did not really campaign much in other northern states. He campaigned for several days in Wisconsin and carried 22% there. This state decisively rejected a segregationist Governor in 1966. I will admit that Maryland was more southern in nature in 1972 than it is today. But that is due to more than just the influx of "a demographic", but rather sweeping economic changes across the state.

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This is stupid, you people are saying you hat the south because we don't believe like you do. That just makes you a bigot.

If you classify a history of sexism, racism, and homophobia as "beliefs" then I feel sorry for you.

You guys are being absurd. I had no idea such attitudes exist in the Dem party. Not all southerners hold those beliefs, and plenty of northerners hold them too.

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The Census Bureau classifies Maryland and Delaware as Southern, and Missouri as something else. The Mason-Dixon line classifies Maryland and Missouri as Southern, and Delaware as something else.

Ancestry maps categorize southern Missouri as American or African American, along with the rest of the South, and
Maryland, most of Missouri, and Delaware as German, along with the rest of the North and Midwest.

Religious denomination maps categorize most of Missouri as Baptist, along with the rest of the South excluding a few places pointed out by the thread starter, and Maryland and Delaware as Catholic, Lutheran or Methodist, along with the rest of the North and Midwest.

Really, take your pick.

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I just love how conservatives want to unload Dubya now so as to make your movement look better. It's the same sort of thing you did after Nixon's failed Presidency, no?

Neinrein is a conservative? He seems like an economically liberal, moderately social conservative poster. He said he voted against Barbour the first time, then voted for him in part because his opponent was too fundamentalist. He's had good things to say about FDR, Bentsen and Ann Richards. Hello?

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The authors of the Lecompton constitution would be aghast at this discussion.