Comments on: Don’t Consign GOP to Land of Cotton

By: mario

mario — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:10:53 +0000

Nice work making generalizations about people that make generalizations. All this is pointless.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:23:12 +0000

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Aside from the Leftists who intentionally misconstrued or misrepresented my article, I found it interesting that almost no one made a big deal out of the fact that it is largely Southerners who man the U.S. military today. That is I think very troubling for the future of this country, when only one region–and the one still denigrated by the national intelligentsia–provides most of the military’s manpower. Opinions?

By: Dave Surls

Dave Surls — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:04:41 +0000

‘Horton then went on to tar the South as “largely a backwater”’

The south was ruled with an iron hand by the Democrats for 150 years, so that’s hardly surprising.

‘And, Alabama, is largely full of inbred, racist paleocons that have family in their background that was part of the KKK; and poor black people.’

Like I said, the Democrats ran the south for 150 years. You can’t reasonably expect all the damage they did to magically vanish in an instant. It’ll take many more years for the south to fully recover from generations of Democrat misrule.

By: Jason Sieckmann

Jason Sieckmann — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:33:27 +0000

So what; there is truth to every stereotype.

California, is, to a large degree, full of hippies, ethnic gangs, and celebrities that know nothing about political theory; but are full of political opinion.

And, Alabama, is largely full of inbred, racist paleocons that have family in their background that was part of the KKK; and poor black people.

Maybe those people aren’t the throbbing business-hearts of those states, but they do make up a great deal of their populations. There is truth to every stereotype. People that say ‘fina’ tend to score lower than people that say “I’m going to do that.”

Don’t get mad; ask where it comes from and if it’s valid. You paint liberals as sissies; they paint you as hicks. You both deserve each other. Truthfully though, stop hurting America. Both of you. Start talking about political philosophy and theory instead of your own paid-off think tanks.

Go complain about the federal reserve board and I’ll listen. Are you really still hung up on this?

By: Robert Hurley

Robert Hurley — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:21:26 +0000

Cousin Dave – You propose a classic non sequitor

By: Cousin Dave

Cousin Dave — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:06:16 +0000

Robert Hurley: Obama received about 15% of the white vote in Alabama in the general election. However, he also recieved the majority of the white vote in the Alabama Democratic primary.

On the other hand, Obama received 97% of the black vote in Alabama, and one exit poll of about 400 black men couldn’t find a single one who voted for McCain.

So once whites are eliminated from America, who will everyone else blame all of their troubles on?

By: Robert Hurley

Robert Hurley — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:36:41 +0000

Obama is reported to have received 10% of the white vote in Alabama and 9% of the white vote in Mississippi. I would be interested in an anlysis of why his percentage of the white vote was so low in the South as opposed to the Northeast and West. Does the future of the Republican party lie with those folks? Current project show that the percentage of white voters will shrink to under 50% by 2050. How will that fact impact the policies put forward by conservatives?

By: Will Becker

Will Becker — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:35:04 +0000

It seems smart lady has a lot to learn.Stick around young lady,in a few months you’ll begin to wonder.

By: GOP Reaches More Than The South | Blue Grass, Red State

GOP Reaches More Than The South | Blue Grass, Red State — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:24:00 +0000

[...] Kentuckian Timothy Furnish writes at Pajamas Media that “By equating red states with the Confederacy, pundits reveal their own ignorance and [...]

By: view from afar

view from afar — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:23:12 +0000

Horace Well… the revolutionary war was maybe fought in the North, but you must have missed American History in your studies. Loads of southern miltias went North to help in the fighting, because they cared, as is stated about southerners in this article that you obviously forgot, or neglected to read. Just because it was a long time ago, people still travelled, and as the colonial population was mostly coastal, there existed ships to travel in (when there wasn’t British blockades)…but let’s not re-hash what we should have learned in American history class in tenth grade. ANd thank you jk.

Most people, southern, or rural midwesterns even, also have problems with this elitist ivy league educated bunch left and right, because the “ivy league and best schools” come off in that elitist, they are somehow superior to lesser mortals, more simply educated. I know many farmers all over the country who are sick of super educated ivy leaguers telling them what to do (its the same if not worse, here in France). Going back to the revolution, that is what it was fought over, the right to be self determined. And that is the key to reviving the GOP.

Hello Susan. Great to see you here, and thank you #34, for mentioning that stereo types( even mine) are always too general for the common good.