I predict Southern State voters will not vote in the 2012 election, and in big numbers.

[pwb]

Two Reasons, One, Newt Gingrich is a Catholic, they do not like Catholics in the south. Two, Mit Romney is a Mormon which is not even considered to be Christian.
In short All their family values and religious bullshit is going to bite them in the ass this election.
We should take back both houses of congress and win the Presidency with ease IMO.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. I can't say I share your confidence, but

I do think we're on totally unpredictable ground this time around.

[enlightenment]

2. Dang.

Think you could swipe a broader brush?

[XemaSab]

3. Here's my math on that:

Catholics > n*****s.

Mormons > n*****s.

Pedophile clowns with a string of arson convictions > n*****s.

See a pattern?

[Ecumenist]

13. Hell, According to the people Xemasab is talking about, I am a n****r,

and I agree with her wholeheartedly.

[DrDan]

4. generalize much?

[roguevalley]

5. given the number of southerners and evangelicals in my circle I

would have to lean to the OP. It doesn't say anything about the entirety of their populations. But it says a lot about a big portion. Southern voting may go down this year especially when Obama pours the molten lead onto either guy who wins. They won't vote because they will stay true to their feelings and beliefs as crazy as they seem to us. That is sort of an admirable thing in a backwards kind of way.

[Initech]

6. Two words: Citizen's United

I know their religious bigotry bullshit is going to come back into play but you forget the rise of the Tea (Koch) Party and that Wall St. has spent the last four years destroying Obama, so don't count your chickens before they hatch yet.

[Tx4obama]

7. Well all of us Southern State DEMOCRATIC voters will be voting :) n/t

[LadyHawkAZ]

8. Don't kid yourself

they will turn out to vote against the black guy no matter who gets the GOP nomination. Religion will be a lot less of an issue than race.

[Populist_Prole]

9. I ruefully admit you may be correct

I work with many who live in SC and, and most are conservative. Evangelicals that don't like Catholics at all. To them it's a "religion of foreigners" as one put it. Despite this, I get the feeling from what they say that while they like Gingrich the most, they know he's too much of a nasty bastard to win a general election. They don't like any of the others either. But they were quite clear that they would vote for whatever Republican is running against Obama in 2012. The post above from 'XemaSab' seems to ring all too true.

A really weird bunch IMO. I've known them for almost 2 decades and I still can't figure them out.

[powergirl]

10. I think you are right - another scenario

Third Party Candidate - like Ross Perot - except it will be a Tea Party Candidate yahoo

[piedmont]

12. I live here. Republicans here will vote for a yellow dog over a Democrat. We will not carry a single

state out this group: South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas. Not one.

There are people here who have foaming at the mouth to cast a vote against Obama since Jan. 2009. They'll show up in big numbers.