Would the nation be better off if the south would go away?

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247. No... You are wrong my friend.

The South doesn't appear as red as it actually is because they have large black populations which vote democratically. Basically all the whites vote republican. All of the black vote democratically. This voting trend gives the South an artificial boost when final numbers are tallied.

By comparison, Utah's final state voting numbers appear worse than those found in the deep south because Utah doesn't have a large black minority population to boost the final totals.



But if we look at the white voting trends among Utah compared to the deep south we get a far different result.

Here are the numbers

In 2008 31% of white voters in Utah voted for Barack Obama. (by the way, that's actually a relatively good number)

Meanwhile here is his % of the white vote in the deep south



Alabama 10%
Arkansas 30%
Georgia 23%
Louisiana 14%
Mississippi 11%
Oklahoma 29%
S. Carolina 26%
Texas 26%
Utah 31%


Now, please take a good look at Utah and compare it to Alabama, Mississippi, and the other George Wallace segregationist states. Its really not even close. In fact if Obama had the white support in any of these southern states states that he had in Utah, he would have won all of the southern states GOING AWAY!

I don't think many people are aware that Obama has a greater percentage of white support in even a place like Utah, than he does in Texas, Georgia or other more traditional deep southern states.


Why does Obama get 31% of the white vote in a rural, heavily mormon state like Utah. But only 10% of the white vote in Alabama? And only 11% of the white vote in Mississippi? Only 14% of the white vote in Louisiana?