Tea party remaking GOP from ground up (OH)

[theHandpuppet]

What in the world makes SW Ohio so red? It wasn't like this when I lived there, but that was back in the 70's. Did someone put something in the water??

Tea party remaking GOP from ground up
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Rachel Richardson
June 22, 2014

Five years ago, Ray Warrick was just an ordinary guy, dutifully showing up at the polls and voting down-the-line Republican while fuming over taxes and yelling at the news from his living room couch.

Today, he finds himself at the helm of the Warren County Republican Party, the face of a growing movement of anti-big government conservatives in one of Ohio’s most Republican-rich counties...

...Anti-establishment conservatives won 12 of 13 leadership party positions in Warren County last week, the same day House majority leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., lost his primary race to a tea party opponent.

The Warren County coup was followed by a tea party victory in Clermont County, where all of the six GOP leadership positions and nearly 100 of 166 central committee seats went to tea party-backed candidates....

MORE at http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/elections/2014/06/22/tea-party-remaking-gop-ground/11250525/

[ladym55]

1. My mom lived in Dayton for about 15 years

What I noticed when I visited (I live in NE Ohio) was the number of mega churches. We have lots here, but nothing like the Dayton area. Those congregations tend to be very conservative and led by very conservative pastors. I wondered at the time if that influenced how red the area was.