ANALYSIS: Southerners a stronghold of far-right views in Republican Party

[Triana]

This week, DailyKos released http://www.dailykos.com/statepoll/2010/1/31/US/437|the eye-opening results> of a poll of 2,000 Republicans across the country, which found that astonishingly large numbers of GOP voters believe President Obama is racist, a socialist, and a non-citizen -- views that have become staples of far-right radio and TV pundits.

As Sam Stein of the Huffington Post says:

The poll illustrates the incredible paranoia enveloping the party and the intense pressure drawing lawmakers further and further away from political moderation.

But the poll has one big flaw: 42% of those polled came from Southern states -- way out of proportion with their share of Republican voters nationally.

This over-sampling of Southern Republicans (846 total) skews the national results, but it also means the data gives us an especially rich picture of the views held by GOP voters in the South.

And the picture is unmistakable: On almost every issue, Southern Republicans are far to the right of their national GOP brethren. In fact, GOP Southerners appear to be the driving base for some of the most extreme views circulating in the Republican Party today.

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http://www.southernstudies.org/2010/02/analysis-southerners-drive-far-right-of-republican-party.html

[hatrack]

1. NO WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

:eyes:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. Isn't a 150 years enough?

:shrug:

[supernova]

3. Naw! Whoever would have guessed that?!

:P

Disclaimer: I live in *moderately crazy land* These are two of the bluest counties in NC. Perhaps only Asheville is bluer than where I am.

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[damntexdem]

5. Oh them dumb Southern Republicans!

Sure am glad I live up here in Texas. ;-)

(And not in any of its blue counties, either.)