Can we win in the South by reaching out to "Yankee" transplants?

[pstokely]

These people don't care about issues like the Confederate Flag not hanging at the capital. It worked somewhat in NC 2 years ago and may work in GA. Is Florida south of Jacksonville really the South culturally? Northern Virgina is more Mid-Atlantic then Southern cuturally

[Ozymanithrax]

1. No n/t

[HuckleB]

2. Nope.

[cynatnite]

3. Nope...

As a transplant, I can say without a doubt that this wouldn't work. Culture issues is a loser for Dems in the south. Pocketbook is the best way, IMO. If Dems can come up with something that would actually put more money into the pockets of people down here, they'd have a shot I think.

Either way, it'll take a while, IMO. The current environment is very anti-Dem. Give it 20 years or so and the chances are better for Dems.

[napi21]

4. I don't think so. I'm a damn yankee living in the south since 1987

and although I have encountered a few De, transplants like me, they are very few and unfortunately a lot of the transplants were rather wealthy Pubs from Yankee town so there's no hope for them. I once had the same idea as you have and was always happy when I heard about ahother co/ that was relocatig here They haven't turned out to be Dems.

[Dappleganger]

5. Yep, they moved here to keep their money.

Those Yanks would've voted republican anyway.

[PFunk]

6. No.

In fact after today I think it's time to start thinking about cutting the south loose. By now it should be clear to everyone that North and South are 2 different regions.

[Rochester]

7. I doubt it; so many of them are transplants because...

...they wanted to live in a place where they are "free" to compete for their neighbor's fair share.
We here in the North are better off without them.

[apocalypsehow]

8. No. Perhaps in Florida, but not in the rest of the South: most of the "Yankee" transplants are Red

"Yankees," who voted Republican their entire lives back in the Northeast, and moved South for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is they found a more congenial political environment in, say, Richland Hills than they did in White Plains.

A Doctor and his wife live right next door to me, and they are originally from Connecticut. They are Republican to the core, and constantly brag about having belonged to the same country club, or golf club, or some highbrow club, as William F. Buckley Jr. did in the town they came from (Sharon? I think? Spelling?).

Short answer: no.

[JCMach1]

9. That assumes all transplants are liberal... try SW Florida on for size

or the Ocala area if you think that...

It also assumes all Southerner's are Conservative... not even true.

You have to win in the South these days by building coalitions like Obama was able to do in places like FL and NC in 2008.

[Skip Intro]

10. There are plenty of us in the South.

Look at the SC gov's race. Yeah, the GOP darling won, but at least 46% of us voted for the Dem.

Not really any other compelling race to look at here. Demint won, of course, but there was no serious Dem challenger there.

Don't write us off here. It's insulting.