I grow increasingly offended, and already have asked politely for for it to be corrected -- and provided an engaging reference backing up that it needs correction -- by this repeated presumption that all the bias, bigotry and small-minded lack of progressive thought are solely in the red and swing states.

It could well play against him in red states and some swing states where anti-immigration fervor is out there.

All this does is make me see red. Not the way to win over the south or any population imo.

The "notion that the South is more than just 'different,' that it is distinct from the rest of the nation ... an inexplicable variant from the national norm," is a false exaggeration, wrote Zinn, that "feeds self-righteousness in the North ...
By the 2032 elections, the South is expected to control almost 40 percent of the electoral votes for President -- more than the shrinking Northeast and Midwest combined.

And yet a stubborn belief in the poor, backward, reactionary cracker South of myth still shapes and distorts American politics.

This is beginning to feel like all the blithe elitist "help" good ol' BLUE-blooded Boston gave us southern RED-necked bigots with school busing, at least a decade before noticing the "anti-immigrant fervor" segregating their own schools.

Again. Please. A little more care with the tar brush.