Is the GOP destined to become a southern regional party?

Question

Has the northeastern Party of Lincoln become the Party of the Angry White Southerner (AWSP)?

How can they expect to keep winning elections if they keep alienating minorities?

Thanks to GOP bashing of gays, muslims, mexicans, mormons, catholics, feminists, etc, etc, 50% of Americans consider themselves Democrat or lean that way. Only 35% of Americans feel the same way about Republicans.

http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=312

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PRE-EMPTIVE RESPONSE.
I'm fully aware there are Republicans everywhere, but the conservative foundation of today's Republican Party is in the south. The Republicans from the northeast are more liberal. The Republicans in the midwest and southwest are more moderate. For example, Arizona voted against the gay marriage ban, Missouri voted for stem cell research, several passed minimum wage increases, North Dakota voted against the extreme anti-abortion law, and although NDs voted for the gay marriage ban, a sizeable minority did not.

Answer 1

You may be right about them becoming increasingly irrelevant. As people become more highly educated, religious fundamentalism decreases or becomes more isolated.

As to your pre-emptive response, as far as I can tell, the closer one gets to the geographic South, the more conservative the state Republican apparatus.

I mean, the Texas Republican Party actually has a policy that part of their job is to "dispel the myth of separation of church and state." A statement like that would most likely get you laughed out of the New Jersey Republican Party (and, possibly, into a long-term mental healthcare facility.) In Texas, it could get you elected.

I have a friend who lives in Texas. When I went to visit she said, "Welcome to Texas. Set your watch back 150 years."

Anyway, an excellent question.

Answer 2

I've tried asking this same question twice and in the same tone you have. When I lived in Oregon, they nearly passed a law making "giving gays no special rights" and nearly all the main stream churches were behind it. When I moved back to the Midwest, groups were trying t get it passed there and nearly all the mainstream churches were against it. Both positions were based in the Bible (or at least interpretations of it). Recently, it appears there is a different approach by Liberals and Conservatives regarding freedom and the Constitution....With the same consequence, I'm affraid. I think influential people (especially of churches) are guiding the more gullible among us to accept that discrimination and intolerance. And along with this intolerance is a basic need to remake the Constitution (as well as the Bible) to fit their views. Being Liberal myself but mostly a Constitutionalist...my heroes are those that stick up for other Americans and find ways to better this country. I hear very little personal attacks by Liberals and many, many attacks with a tone of violence by the extreme Right.

Yes, there is a difference between the Northeast (old Union) and the South and the West. The West Coast is more Liberal as well. And its ooutcome is consistent support of Conservative or Liberal views.

I think its like 2 countries artificially glued together.

Answer 3

Short answer, no. Basically every rural area in every state has a large number of republicans. The only place this isn't true may be in the northeast. However, the south is definitely the Republican stronghold. Its not bad to have, though, since the great lakes and northeast corridor are losing population to Georgia, North Carolina, and Florida.

Republicans will be either a narrow majority or robust minority for the forseeable future.