Democrats Switch to the GOP Across the South

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michael32

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The Democratic party has become too liberal? Who knew?


Conservative Democrats switch to GOP across the Deep South -- Los Angeles Times, February 6, 2011

Reporting from Atlanta — For Democrats, Ashley Bell was the kind of comer that a party builds a future on: A young African American lawyer, he served as president of the College Democrats of America, advised presidential candidate John Edwards and spoke at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston.

But after his party's midterm beat-down in November, Bell, a commissioner in northern Georgia's Hall County, jumped ship. He joined the Republicans.

Bell, 30, said he had serious issues with the healthcare law and believed that conservative "blue dog" Democrats in Congress who shared his values had been bullied into voting for it.

"I think the midterms showed you really can't be a conservative and be a member of the Democratic Party," Bell said.

Many of the defectors have echoed Bell's assertion that Democrats have become too liberal.

"The truth is that this change of party is in line with thousands of everyday people who simply feel more comfortable with most of what the Republican Party represents locally and nationally," Caldwell said in a statement.
 
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wow, way to spin the fact that the Republican party is quickly becoming a regional party, not a national one

What region would you say that is?



2010 Post-Election Party Control of State Legislatures
National Coucil of State Legislatures


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The south was once reliably democrat but is now reliably republican in national elections. As the democrats push for bigger government and push their unpopular social ideas like abortion on demand, the south is leaving the democrat party in droves. The democrat party is mostly the party of large cities that need the federal government to fund their budgets as they spend like mad.
 
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The south was once reliably democrat but is now reliably republican in national elections. As the democrats push for bigger government and push their unpopular social ideas like abortion on demand, the south is leaving the democrat party in droves. The democrat party is mostly the party of large cities that need the federal government to fund their budgets as they spend like mad.
Except red states tend to receive more federal money than blue states.
 
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The south was once reliably democrat but is now reliably republican in national elections. As the democrats push for bigger government and push their unpopular social ideas like abortion on demand, the south is leaving the democrat party in droves. The democrat party is mostly the party of large cities that need the federal government to fund their budgets as they spend like mad.

As many times as we've been over this, how long before we can just assume you are lying since you provide no data?

That's why the welfare counties are all the rural Republican ones? In my state this is really pronounced. I live in the third largest city and thus the third largest donor county, barely receiving $.60 for every dollar we pay in taxes.

Dylan Ratigan has the rest of it. Video should be available in a moment.

YouTube - Blue States pay the way for Red Welfare States
 
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