John Judis notes “there is a regional division in
the party between the deep South, which contains many of the diehard
House Republicans, and the Republicans from the Northeast, industrial
Midwest, and the Far West. In the House vote on the fiscal cliff, Republican House members from
the deep South opposed it by 83 to 10, while Republicans from the
Northeast favored it by 24 to one, and those from the Far West by 17 to
eight.”
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