A Rural and Southern Party
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 30th, 2009 4:37 am by HL
A Rural and Southern Party
In an interview on Hardball, former Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA) followed up on recent comments made by Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) about how the Republican party is losing its appeal.
Said Davis: “Politics has been defined by culture over the last few cycles, and we’ve become a rural party and a Southern party. We’ve been losing inner suburbs and the like. A lot of this was the policies of the Bush administration.”
Furthermore, as the GOP increased its focus on cultural issues, it also caused a widening education gap:
Davis added: “The high education areas Obama carried — 78 of the 100 counties with the highest education. McCain carried 88 of the 100 counties with the lowest education. As we move to cultural politics, that’s been the shift.”
