Reply #10: Well, in the south [View All]

[tinfoil tiaras]

The rich white repukes love their hoards of money and they plan on keeping it that way (i.e. they hate welfare and other government programs to help the poor--which most dems support). The middle-class to poor white repukes have their warped sense of "family values" (i.e. no gays and abortions) and are willing to vote against their own economic interests to "preserve" their "values". Some (not all) are still bitter over the democrats support of civil rights in the 1960s and vote Republican because most blacks vote Democratic (i.e. they don't want to vote for the same people that their black neighbors are voting for).

Note. Mississippi/Alabama would be blue states (there are more poor whites/minorities than there are rich folks. So if everyone voted with their own economic interests, these states would turn blue. FYI, i'm using the typical Southern republican demographic in my explanation above, which explains my exclusion of minorities, for they do not typically vote republican.

Just my 0.02 cents...