Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Surprise, surprise...

...The Republican Party really has become the party of the South.

The following graph breaks down by region the 'favorability rating' of the Grand Old Party:


I mean, it's not even close!

These data, culled from recent polling, were translated into graph form in a piece that appeared in The Washington Monthly earlier this month. I discovered it through a link posted on Andrew Sullivan's blog.

2 comments:

phuckpolitics said...

Goddammit, I hate living in the fucking south.

cft said...

Hahah. Of course, none of this indicates that the Dems are popular: It certainly seems like they're trying as hard as they can to alienate their supposed "base."

Or maybe not. Maybe it's just that the Democratic Party's base turns out to consist of investment banks and insurance companies.

Which, oddly, is also the GOP's true "base."