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in response to PeterIL:

I am from Chicago and my knowledge of the South is somewhat limited, but could it be that southerners are seeing northern urban liberalism up close for the first time? In Chicago we see the elements of it regularly and are used to it: the tyrannical power of public employee unions and the inability of anyone to prevent them from looting the public, the inefficiency and waste of govt bureaucracies--hire as many people as you can and pay them as much as possible, the inability to stop spending and the determination to never, ever, allow public payrolls to be cut. I am sure southern sts have their little pol machines and cliques, but the sheer breadth, scale and viciousness of northern urban liberals, when it comes to protecting and expanding the ranks of those who feed at the public trough, must be a breathtaking sight for those who live in states with modest public establishments. Thrown in the fact that Obama is a 'post-American' liberal uncomfortable with American power, military and otherwise, and I am not sure how the more conservative regions of America could have a reaction that is anything other than very, very negative. Finally, there is the fact that this guy got elected as a moderate and he has governed as the most liberal president in American history.