<p>Can anyone answer this question? How come 4 out of the last 5 U.S. presidents have grown/lived/governed in the Southern States? There have been and still are a lot of jokes proclaiming that the South is filled with idiots and yet, we have Carter, Bush Sr., Clinton, and Bush Jr.</p>
<p>the voting tendencies of the South is what is known as a 'voting block' meaning that the south votes en mass for one candidate. Winning this voting block is important to parties/presidents, so they usually chose someone they think can 'carry the south' - which would be a southerner...</p>
<p>that and southerners give the "im one of you" feeling to the rest of the nation more than a northern person</p>
<p>These are also Southerners with Ivy League educations. So needless to say, most of them aren't idiots. There is one glaring exception.</p>
<p>I know that. But for most people, Bush and Clinton seemed like men you could grab a beer with, which for some reason appeals to the idiots that vote.</p>
<p>Well...even though I don't like to talk about republican/democrat politics, I assume it's because the voting patterns of most of the other states are decided (the whole red state blue state thing). The South tends to vote for its native son, and because its the only variable in the election game that is why there have been so many southern presidents (votes).</p>
<p>I don't really consider Texas to be a 'Southern' state. Texas is Texas.</p>
<p>I think it could also, to some extent, be a response to the distrust of D.C. "insiders." The American public distrusts those who work in Washington (in general), so each party looks for candidates that don't have that "Washington" air about them (suits, politics, and the big city). The South has an opposite reputation: casual, local and friendly, and rural). I also agree with whoever it was who said that Southerners tned to be more readily accepted as part of the everyday American people than Northerners.</p>