Via Andrew Sullivan, I found this little statistical tidbit fascinating:

Obama’s favorability-unfavorability rating in the South is 28-67, while it is 68-23 in the rest of the country.

Despite the strides taken in the past couple of decades towards globalization and community building on the Internet, the fact remains that geography and the culture that you live in are pretty persistent and hard to change. The place you live in has a big influence over your thinking and behavior, whether you notice it or not.