If you are talking absolutes, no it isn't. But I guess I consider Minnesota a reliably democrat stronghold even though we've had quite a few republican govs. Ones I even thought governed well. Still at the heart of this matter, it is the south and it is the republicans fretting about what to do now about the flag that rose up after desegregation. Maybe in a 100 years they'll get caught up to where the democrats are now?
Herein lies the paradox: over the last 50 years, it has been democratic politicians and their constituents that have had more to do with using that flag as a social apparatus to the benefit of the democratic party. That includes both Bill and Hillary Clinton. Despite this very apparent fact, the Stars and Bars are being called a Republican issue when it's clearly a Democrat issue. I'm sure people on the left are going ape-shit, using this incident to further push the Dixiecrat myth, but in reality it's not all that helpful to their cause.
