Social conservatives and likely catholics to boot. Hispanics are a potential goldmine for the GOP.
Exactly. Ignorant minorities are just as mindlessly superstitious as rednecks, and in the same direction. If it wasn't for white entitlement causing Republicans to keep trying to disenfranchise minorities and thus leaving minorities no choice but to vote for the intellectual elite who will represent them, we liberals would be fucked. If the underclass all banded together in an orgy of delusion, we few intellectuals would not be able to make our voices heard above the din of stupidity.
Now, if Democrats/Progresives could only remember that states south of the Mason-Dixon line other than Florida matter. I recently came across an article that states what I have been saying for years as a Southerner. Progressives should not be giving up on the South. We need you.
The problem is that we of the liberal elite want intellectual equals. If someone can't judge facts they can't be trusted not to veer off into fundie-land. If a person can deny evolution and climate change because of simplistic, convenient narratives, nothing is safe, so how do you engage someone like that?
We do not want to have to peddle Truth like snake oil just because some people want to be really lazy about their method of discrimination.
When the South is ready to join the rational, thinking world, we'll be here.