North and South in the Republican Party

(Blog Post) Rural areas have a farmer's contempt for welfare, and the entire upstate region knows too well that the taxes and regulations imposed by the rich downstate voters are crippling their economy. No, this is not libertarian cant; it's obvious to basically anyone who spends any time there. New York has onerous business taxes, a deeply problematic workman's comp system, and various rules about public sector unions that are slowly destroying the budgets of the ... Full Story »

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Derek Hawkins
3.7
by Derek Hawkins - Nov. 5, 2009

As long as social issues dominate the Republican Party, they will continue losing their north—I had a lot of relatives who at least considered voting for Obama. Ironically, I wonder if the tea parties won’t help bring the two wings of the Republican party together: guns and lower government spending are the two things all members can agree on. But if the south wants to keep its northern Republicans—and the congressional seats that come with them—it’s going to have to back off trying to make the northern party look like a miniature version of itself.

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