Why are people from the northeast and upper midwest generally not voting Republican anymore?

Better education, I'd guess.

The events have shifted. Pre civil warfare, the dems were for slavery, so it grow to be a north/south difficulty. post civil warfare, the democrat social gathering contained in the overdue 1800s began to modify from a classically liberal social gathering to a democratic socialist social gathering. The so called help for the "operating classification" performed pleased with the increasingly extra quickly starting to be immigarnt inhabitants of the day contained in the northeast. The Irish, Italians, and Jews who got here on the time were a lot extra in music with authorities intervention in economic affairs, and the leagcy nonetheless exists on the prompt. apart from, after the 60's, the republican social gathering absorbed the dixiecrats who left the democrat social gathering becaiuse they were allienated via the "new lefts" moral and social values, so the souther "social conservatives" now are area of the republicans.

Well it depends on your definition of Upper Midwest. If upper midwest is Minnesota N. Dakota S. Dakota Wyoming etc. then they still are supporting the republicans.

The main reason the Northeast went republican in the first place was because of the anti-slavery stance of the North. The Republicans have supported tax breaks which make it easier for farmers to make money. So farmers and farm based communities like the Republicans because they aren't pushing for lots of programs that small communities simply won't be able to afford.

Northeast and Midwest Republicans have traditionally been economically conservative (low taxes, low spending), socially and culturally moderate, and with pseudo libertarian views on government and foreign policy. The Reagan coalition that captured 49 states won over cultural conservatives in the South with his stance on abortion and eloquent oratory on God and morality, but put equal emphasis on lowering taxes and reducing the size of government. He benefited from having the USSR as an easy target to rally against in foreign policy.

In recent times, the coalition has fractured as leading voices in the GOP have placed more emphasis on social and cultural conservatism and abandoned fiscal responsibility. The war in Iraq has alienated some moderate Republicans who, while not exactly isolationist, favor a more restrained foreign policy.

However, don't write this grand coalition off. John McCain has the best chance of reuniting it with his genuine fiscal conservative credentials and growing credibility with the culturally conservative south (as evidenced by his win in South Carolina). He is hawkish on Iraq but perceived as both pragmatic and genuine with great credibility as a veteran himself. At a time where there is a lot of anti-Republican sentiment in the country, it would take a moderate like McCain combined with half the country's revulsion toward Hillary Clinton to win the presidency for the GOP.

The Republican party was once respectable. It stood for freedom and the rights of all Americans.

It is no longer the party of Lincoln. Very far from it. It has been co-opted by corporate fascist neocons, the military-industrial complex.

The last good Republican, Dwight D. Eisenhower, warned of this when he left office.

Education.

Large urban areas with large populations of people who are on welfare are generally going to support democrats, rural and suburban areas are generally going to support republicans. Democrats rule small pockets with large populations and as a result of the population can win most of the northeast, west and northwest states, while the republicans win most of the south and heartland states.

Because they never did vote Republican.

They have a Welfare Mentality.

In the Midwest and South, the people treasure Freedom.

They work hard.

People in the Northeast and Upper Midwest live off our Taxes. They are either born Rich---- or live off Welfare.

As a Northerner (Pennsylvania), I can say that I feel abandoned by the GOP. What happened to the party of small government and civil liberties?

"Blue" states are often blue by a small majority. California has a lot of Red counties. I think nowadays it has more to do with rural vs urban than civil war history.

See Fred Thompson, media honeypot, on loan from CSI? He is sandbagging around the crime wave, created by ELECTONEERING, also seditious conspiracy, over the last three years of shagging for President: