PANHANDLE Baby!!! That's my hometown area, and most of my immediate family still lives there. They have commented much the same as your post. I live in the Chicagoland area... but miss my Florida Panhandle and looking forward to retirement back home, soon!

Fracture??? The base has already broken... and the largest fragmented piece true conservatives have from it are the Patriots - those who value and support individual rights and liberties, with a free market economy.