When I read this, not only did I feel some sense of relief reading (and believing what I read – it fits with what I understand of regional politics) about the long term geographic limitations of the Tea Party, it also struck a chord with some of my old studies in American history.

Professor Doenecke assigned a book called Albion’s Seed by a David Hackett Fisher which viewed colonial America through the lens of four different regions of Great Britain and how immigrants to America from each of these regions tended to cluster regionally in America, as well.