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> >It is a seeming conundrum. My Ozark County votes Republican but it is  
> poor. The answer is people's historical perception of the parties  
> coupled with a fierce independence.

It's not a conundrum at all, it's simply that your premise is not true.  I've 
heard (mainly the Democrats) themselves espouse that they are the party "for" 
the poor, and some how this gets twisted around in people's minds as being 
that poor people are for the Democrats.  When we focus on the notion of 
societal 
parasites as being the definion of "poor", maybe there's a case to be made.  
My family was of modest means and were staunch Republicans.  Herself's family 
was affluent and were staunch Democrats.  That's not anecdotal, that's the 
norm.

What you may be observing there is that independent minded people tend to be 
Rebpulicans and those of a dependency mentatlity tend to be Democrats.

The parties break down like this:   The poor (those who actually earn their 
living) are Republicans, the rich and the parasites (oh, I was just 
redundant, 
wasn't I) are Democrats, the intelligent are Libertarians, and the crazies 
are 
Greens.


James   </HTML>