Absolutely! Where middle-of-the-road means far left. I've owned homes in both Mississippi and Alabama so I'm not just repeating generalizations I've heard.As a born-and-raised Southerner, I'll have to admit this sounds pretty spot-on, at least as a generalization. I consider myself about as moderate as moderate can get, but to my friends that I grew up with in rural middle Georgia, I'm the token "flaming liberal". So we pretty much talk sports and stay away from politics.
And....never further into a conversation than the third sentence with someone you meet in your town for the first time is not "What do you do?" or "Where do you work?" but "Where do you go to church?"