# Mississippi, Alabama, Hawaii, Samoa **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [March 13, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-alabama-hawaii-samoa/615702 "2012-03-13T23:56:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 31
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2012, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-alabama-hawaii-samoa/615702/31 "2012-03-14T05:43:44Z")
> [@tnetennba](#): > > I can’t think of a state that Romney would lose and Santorum would win. What you are failing to take into account here is the people who will not vote for a Mormon. Period. They won’t vote for Obama of course but they _will_ sit out the election before they will vote for someone they think is a member of a cult. Southerners do not like Romney. Tonight’s results should make that clear. The reasons for their dislike are many but his religion is a big part of it for a certain demographic. Some of these people will undoubtedly vote for the Republican nominee in the Fall, no matter who it is. But I am confident there will be a significant number of evangelicals who will sit out the election if Romney is the nominee. Will it be a large enough number to cost Romney a state? I don’t know, but if I were one of his advisers I would be concerned about it. And you can bet David Axelrod has a strategy ready to make this work in his guy’s favor. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mississippi-alabama-hawaii-samoa/615702)._