Based on the useful comments and a bit more research, I've now got a new iteration of the GOP Relationships Diagram for your review. This is a work in progress, so please, as always, critique away.
Several people raised questions as to whether Libertarians were even Republicans, and so forth. For the purposes of this election, I decided to change the title to "Tribes of the GOP" to indicate groups who are inclined to vote Republican, with intersections between groups who share common ideology, values, etc. I know that some of you felt that Status Quo Republicans intersected with Bush Republicans, but since the Bush administration seems much more Idealistic than Realistic, once again I ended up with the Status Quo's disconnected to the other groups.
I uploaded the graphic to Flickr this time, so you should have more viewing options that will help you to actually read the text rather than simply looking at the pretty patterns. I tried to reverse engineer the quality on the last diagram also, for anyone who wants to be able to compare the two.
I'm not sure how to label the Independents and I've not received enough data to compile a significant quote, list of values or traits, or archetype. I'm hoping that "Reagan Democrats" covers the Hillary Democrats, although I'm open to the possibility that we could have a whole new tribe emerging there. Heh.
You Nixon fans will notice that I replaced him with Henry Kissinger as the Status Quo Realpolitik archetype. Please confirm whether I've defined the Status Quo's more accurately now, or less. I intersected Neocons with Reagan Democrats as a nod to their common liberal roots, connected the South Park Conservatives to the Neo-Libertarians, and placed the Crunchy Cons among the Progressive Republicans and Bush Republicans based on my NRO and Claremont Institute research on Dreher. Neocons and Crunchy Cons don't intersect with each other, but they're both so idealistic that I made them next-door neighbors.
So much for the logic and justification. I'll leave it to you to figure out how to square these circles.
