Great article from Bloomberg about the political change in MO! (St. Louis: school, live)

[ClaiborneJacksonFan]

Good article. This teacher explains how MO was torn between the Confederacy and Union, making it a bellweather state, but how Democrats controlled it still and explains how MO has made the change a little later than other southern states switching from Democrat to Republican. IMO the change started around 2000. Peter Kinder also commented about it before how the civil war mentality voting in MO was coming to an end.

Todays standards MO is a Midwestern state with 50 percent midwestern and 25 a mix of both, but Dixie still lives in a decent chunk of the state. At least the voter mentality is more southern than Midwestern now, but parts of the state are still in the south!!

I wish I had this professor.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-23/akin-s-run-reflects-missouri-s-flight-from-political-moderation.html

The Missouri that was torn between the Union and the Confederacy during the Civil War 150 years ago has definitively become a Southern state, Jones said. Social conservatives compose 37 percent of the electorate, he said, aligning it more with the reliably Republican South, the citadel of the party.

“Missouri has come a little later to what came to the old Confederate states in the ’80s and ’90s,” Jones said. “They removed conservative Democrats and replaced them with conservative Republicans.”

Akin, a six-term congressman from suburban St. Louis who unexpectedly won the Aug. 7 primary, is a beneficiary of the culture wars in Missouri, a state of 6 million at the forefront of legal battles over abortion, capital punishment, stem-cell research and school desegregation.

[SW Missouri Dave]

When are you going to get the hint onegoal? Are you trying to break some kind of banned record?

[RichMonk]

Missouri is between 36° N and 40° 37' N. It is clearly in the Northern Hemisphere.