'08 Election Another Geographical Showdown?

The last two Presidential elections has brought to the forefront a stark, 21st century truth concerning Americans and their political preferences. That truth is that there is a vast geographical divide that pits the vast American heartland against the large metro areas of the coastline and the Great Lakes.

Looking at the geographical demographics from the last two elections, it is clear that those around the peripheral rim of the country, along with the Great Lakes region, prefer Democrats and tend to be more liberal. On the other hand, those everywhere else in the nation's vast heartland that includes the South, the Midwest (except for the Great Lakes shores), the 'Bread-Basket,' and the Rocky Mountain states tend to prefer conservatives and are more prone to vote for Republicans.

The 2008 Presidential election is shaping up to be a replay of the geographical showdowns that have occurred in the past two Presidential elections.

We see absolutely no reason to think that Boston, NYC, D.C., Baltimore, Miami, New Orleans, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, or Buffalo will decide not to support Mrs. Clinton or B. Hussein Obama. These large cities and their surrounding areas are inhabited largely by people who prefer the nanny state and the watchful eye of Big Brother.

By the same token, there is no way that South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Kansas, Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Indiana, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, and many others will vote for Mrs. Clinton or B. Hussein Obama. Either candidate is going to have big problems in the heartland.

And so, another geographical showdown is in the making. Americans are still greatly divided. And the ideological conflict that separates the heartland from the peripheral is only going to get worse.

The question will be, how many individual voters in that vast wasteland we call the metro-peripheral will jump ship and vote for the GOP candidate? The answer will boil down to how many within the liberals' paradise will affirm America's values, history, and Constitution rather than support Socialists who want to bring our Constitutional Republic to ruin so that a new order can be ushered in.

And yes, it really does boil down to nothing more than that.