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I'll avoid the Conservative or Liberal label and simply look at Republicans and Democrats. A major shift has occured in the past twenty-five or so years. The strongholds of the Democratic base have shifted from more rural areas into the larger cities, once the stongholds of the Republican party. Part of this change has been the result of the growing influence of the born again Christian movement and the direct appeal to this demographic on the part of the Republicans. In other words, a town of 30K in TN would certainly be part of that Republican stronghold (not surprising that Gore could not carry hus home state, then).

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You have helped me make my point. The majority of voters on the right are not rich by any reasonable standards. When people on the left attack a right (or conservative) viewpoint by using the tried and true "rich folks vs poor folks" argument, it doesn't help their cause.

As an example, Democrats love to claim that Bushes tax cuts only helped the rich. The tax cuts have helped my wife and I, and we make way less than 110K a year. So when Democrats start talking about repealing the tax cuts because it would only effect the rich, I wonder if they really understand what the definition of rich is?

Todays Republican Party is not in power because of the Country Club elite, they are in power because of common every day people. I don't think the Democratic party understands why they are losing votes in places like rural middle TN, and until they figure it out they are going to continue losing elections.