NorthWest Florida Republican

Over the last couple of Elections, it has been apparent that the GOP was heading the wrong direction in most of the country. If you took some time to look at the breakout of each district voting and how it voted party wise you would notice a trend that shows the Republican party shrinking with the majority of voters in the south.

This is evident in the Congressional seats held by Republicans as well.

The Southern domination of the congressional Republican Party has become more complete with each and every election. This year, Republicans suffered a net loss of two Senate and three House seats in the South, but they lost five Senate seats and 18 House seats in other sections. No Republican House members are left in New England, and they have become ever scarcer in New York and Pennsylvania and across the Midwest. – Washington Post

While some suggest that this is because the south is dominating the GOP, it could also be said that others are loosing the message of the GOP except those in the south. Why is it that the GOP continues to hemorrhage Republican seats in Congress in areas other than the South?

Though if you really look at the maps, you will see that the problem isn’t the South, it is large metropolitan areas. Every major metropolitan area voted Democrat. That is difficult to overcome.

Why would they vote Democrat? Do more of them depend on government services? Are there more immigrants? More poor?

To me it is obvious that the problem is our approach to unhappy residents of metropolitan areas more than it is the “Southern-baked ideological imperatives” that some suggest.

Perhaps if more people took some time to actually think about those “Southern-baked ideological imperatives”, they would see the common sense approach and wouldn’t be so apt to vote against Republican Ideas.