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South Park Republican


"South Park Republican" is a term that first circulated in blogs and articles on the Internet between 2001 and 2002, that described what some modern commentators describe as a "new wave" or generation of young adults and teenagers who hold center-right political beliefs. Those beliefs are, in general, aligned with those portrayed in the popular American animated television program South Park. The phrase was coined by commentator Andrew Sullivan in 2001.

South Park co-creator Trey Parker is a registered member of the Libertarian Party. Fellow co-creator Matt Stone sums up their views with the comment, "I hate conservatives, but I really fucking hate liberals."

In an online forum (South Park Studios Chat, 10 May 2001), Parker and Stone responded to a participant's question:

In 2006, Parker, Stone, and Sullivan headlined a conference in Amsterdam hosted by the libertarian monthly magazine Reason. During an on-stage interview with Reason editors Nick Gillespie and Jesse Walker, Stone and Parker reaffirmed their discomfort with labels while acknowledging that their political views could be described most accurately as libertarian and rejected the direction of the Republican Party that they described as "more government and more Jesus".John Tierney documented the declaration on the pages of The New York Times a few days later in a column called "South Park Refugees". "South Park Libertarians", an edited version of the interview, appeared in the December 2006 issue of Reason.


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