<<So, if it is a Southern thing why did Obama win the majority of the primaries in the Deep South?>>
By getting 90% of the black vote. By adding that to the youth vote, and whatever other niche voter blocs he has.
<<Your vitriol is only exceeded by your ignorance of the South.>>
My "ignorance" of the south consisting of calling those racist bastards what they are, despite every bullshit pretence they make to prove they have "changed." A solidly Democratic and racist white electorate switches to Republicanism after the Democratic Party abandons its long-standing commitment to Jim Crow, but that's just coincidence. Similar "coincidences" follow as life-long Democrats switch parties in the wake of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts. Oh no, pardon my vitriol, no racism here folks, just move right along.