What's the big deal about Northern vs Southern candidates?
 

Ok, I don't want this to turn into a big North vs South debate, but the topic keeps popping up, so I'm curious: Why is everyone making such a big deal about northern candidates supposedly having problems winning the election? Do people really think that southerners are so closed-minded that they won't vote for someone who's not "one of their kind"? Would southern people really vote for W over a northern democratic candidate just because he's southern? It seems that people in the north don't have a problem electing a candidate from the south, but everyone is making it seem like people in the south don't want to elect a candidate from the north.

BTW, here's the article that sparked this thread: Edwards touts Southern credentials ahead of S.C. primary

Aren't you aware that the Civil War never really ended?

Go visit the South sometime and you'll see.

It's a whole different culture down there.

Birds of a feather flock together.

-Rudey

Like other civilized society, the war went from the trenches into the sporting arena. Just look at how soccer became warfare against other nations by proxy.

How, specifically?



hahaha to DeltAlum. :)

Amen to that one. Southerners have different values and expectations out of a president in comparison to the rest of America. If you want to win, it would help to win over the south.

Excuse me, but that was the War Between the States...

So what are those values and expectations, and what makes them so different from those of northerners?

Yes. And if you happen to live South of the Mason-Dixon Line it's also sometimes called The War of Northern Agression.

LOL... Now you sound like my uncle.

Don't you know that everyone and everything in the South is so much better? Ugh I can't believe you weren't taught that! Just goes to show how Northerners have NO CLASS. /sarcasm

Bush Sr and Reagan were not Southern and won the election. Northern Democrats might have trouble winning the south yes.

But, both really tried--through their emphases on defense, the anti-abortion movement, and other "traditional" positions--to win the South. A candidate who has always served say, a New York contingency will have a much harder time because the things he's pushed for are pretty much opposite what he'll have to push for Georgia residents.

I've noticed that Southerners tend to vote more along party lines. Rhode Island is a staunchly Democratic state, but they overwhelimingly voted two Republican senators in because of the fact that they were pro-choice and pro-environment.

That was a pretty astute statement arya .. kudos to you.

"Waterloo was won on the fields of Eaton . . . ."

-wellington