Why Do Republicans Hate The Red States?

They aren’t. I say that partly because the Democrats would have difficulty parlaying an endorsement from Jesus H. Christ Himself into an effective campaign tool. The other part because, for the most part, Democrats govern and Republicans run continually for reelection. The Dems got down to business immediately in January, while the Republicans started their campaign commercial storyboarding the moment California was called for Obama on November 4th and have been trying to provide good video ever since. The Republicans wont be really voting against the energy bill, nor are they actually opposed to it, so much as they are campaigning against the Democrats and the president by voting against it.

Yeah the second republicans do something that could be considered sensible governance the very fabric of the universe will rip open and swallow us whole.Anywho, since the map represents green jobs/1000 residents, it looks like it generally favors states w/smaller populations- VT, Maine, the Plains states. Still, Texas is dark blue on that map…that’s a lot of jobs republicans. Think about it. You don’t want to be against jobs for your constituents, do you?

Bob, I just have to tell you about Dr. Green, who taught me Political Geography. He was a ‘blue dog’ Democrat with great, big paintings of donkeys in his office. One day he held up a map of Alabama that showed the counties where Republican voters were concentrated; it happens that they lie right along the Interstate highway system.Dr. Green asked: “if I were a Republican lawmaker, what would this map tell me?” His eyes searched the room and found mine.”To build an interstate highway across the Black Belt,” I replied. The only concentration of solid-blue counties lay in the southern half of the state, an area named for the color of its soil more than any human geography.Dr. Green wondered aloud, “if they thought that way, would they be Republicans?“