Letters to the Editor
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Southern Strategy
walter_map said "Yes. Good thing, too. It may not actually be possible to win the presidency without carrying at least a couple of Southern states. This is why the last three Democratic winners have been from the South."
Exactly. It seems like ever since Civil Rights there is no way for anyone even slightly left of center to win without appealing to the South. Pretty sad situation where the leadership of a nation hinges on not offending some ignorant racists. (I'm NOT saying all in the South are such, just an oversimplification I embrace when feeling overwhelmed and hopeless.) The last Dem president to NOT have a Southern accent was JFK.
OK. So say Obama hangs onto the states Kerry won and then adds an Alabama and a Georgia or two. Game over, right?
I'm just happy because it seems like this is an ingenious way to get over the stranglehold the Southern Conservatives have held our Party in for 40+ years now. Use their racism against them. I mean with the Dem voter registation we've been seeing, if all those people turn out for Obama, who cares what the conservatives in the mountain states think. And I'm not so sure we can totally count Obama out in MT either. Lot of independent minded folk in that state.
I would also like to add my voice to those complementing Salon on the quality of this article.