George Will complains: the GOP has become ‘Too Southern’ in recent years

[bobbyw24]

Conservative commentator George Will argued Sunday on ABC’s “This Week that the GOP has become “too southern” and that this could hurt the party’s election strategy.

“There’s also the problem that the Republican Party has been in recent years too southern,” Will said, raising questions about whether Texas Gov. Rick Perry is the right presidential candidate for the party to nominate. “In the last five presidential cycles, they’ve got 79 percent of their electoral votes from the South. It’s too much.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/25/george-will-complains-the-republican-party-has-been-in-recent-years-too-southern/#ixzz1Z3sI0wnr

[CaptUSA]

Good news is that while Ron Paul is a Texas congressman, he was born and raised here in Pittsburgh.

[Rael]

Perry is not too southern. He's too big government neocon.

[ZanZibar]

Gotta love geographic bigotry and close-minded prejudice. :rolleyes:

[XNavyNuke]

“There’s also the problem that the Republican Party has been in recent years too southern,” Will said, raising questions about whether Texas Gov. Rick Perry is the right presidential candidate for the party to nominate. “In the last five presidential cycles, they’ve got 79 percent of their electoral votes from the South. It’s too much.”

George Will is ignorant of political geography and his thesis is nonsensical. This op/ed from many years ago enlightens their readers to what is really going on. The Urban Archipelago: It's the Cities, Stupid (http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=19813). Very few county shifts occurred at the state level in the Obama election. What happened was the Obama campaign focused on, and succeeded, in bringing out shear numbers in urban counties.


Look at our famously blue West Coast. But for the cities--Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego--the West Coast would be a deep, dark red. The same is true for other nominally blue states. Illinois is almost entirely red--Chicago turns the state blue. Michigan is almost entirely red--Detroit, Lansing, Kalamazoo turn it blue. And on and on. What tips these states into the blue column? Their urban areas do, their big, populous counties.

It's time for the Democrats to face reality: They are the party of urban America.

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[HOLLYWOOD]

George Will is the False Right paradigm... at the Washington Post.

He's just a different kind of Progressivism and bows to who ever hands him his paychecks... whether WaPo or ABC News.

George Will has continued to Blackout Ron Paul on ever political show he attends as the staged right puppet.

[Rothbardian Girl]

Gotta love geographic bigotry and close-minded prejudice. :rolleyes:
Agreed. As if pretty much everything in this country hasn't been biased towards Northeastern interests. George Will has a way with words, but that's about it.

[XNavyNuke]

Given this evening in Georgia, it looks like the GOP has lost the South. Imagine that - George Will is prove wrong yet again.

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