Letters to the Editor
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Historical Amnesia
I hate to break it to you but the south was traditionally a Democratic bastion until Reagan's 'revolution' of 1980. Lincoln's party was considered an anathema until that time and the social changes that occurred hence. Southern Democrats were certainly not liberal as their "Yankee" New Englanders, it was traditional and still to this day is, for a Northern Yankee to select a southern Democrat as a running mate for taking the southern vote; Kennedy/Johnson, Carter/Mondale, Dukakis/Bentsen and most recently Kerry/Edwards, not that it works very well however.
Since Reagan the south has certainly voted red and how ironic, as an aside is the term "Red", in my youth being a "Red" certainly meant something far more loaded and sinister, as in Communist.
While the general information in the article seems to be accurate, it was not that long ago when things were different. Hell when I was a kid growing up in Richmond, Va the south was sill under the cloud of our own homespun apartheid, lest we forget our recent history and its cloud of influence that still lingers above us.