opebo
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« on: November 05, 2008, 04:19:48 AM » |
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The South-eastern quarter of the state is like Arkansas and the South.. maybe comparable to Kentucky and Tennessee. The Southwestern quarter is like Oklahoma.. so these two are comparable to the two highly racist areas that returned McCain his biggest margins compared to Bush (OK,TN,KY). So, even though Obama did very well in St. Louis County, the two cities, and a couple of other populous counties near StL, he couldn't overcome the benighted Southern half of the state.
I guess the most interesting comparison is to Indiana - both were at about the same level of Republicanism in the last couple of elections, but Indiana wasn't actually trending that way, while Missouri has been. So now we see Indiana much more Democratic, even in a racial election. Although southern Indiana is comparable to southern Missouri, and St. Louis is better than Indianapolis, a considerably smaller percentage of Indianans are, apparently, the hard-core OK-KY-TN style of right-winger (either that or it could be just more blue-collars desperately impoverished in IN than MO).
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