As a result of being snotty and stcuk up and ultra-conservative..
Many years back in UP, there was a group of Brahmins who took to agriculture...the conservative Brahmins who went according to scriptures and practices, resenetd this and outcasted those Brahmins who took to tilling the land...
These Brahmins then responded by taking to agriculure with a vengeance and established a different identity for themselves and called themselves Bhumihars...
Today, nobody cares a rat A%^& about the Congress in UP....even these Bhumihars today, either vote for the BJP or the SP and some exceptional cases actually vote for the BSP.....
The loss of the Brahmins is the gain of the BJP and SP.....hot headed self righteousness can be self defeating...
