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1.21.2008

Southern sunset?

Creative Loafing's John F. Sugg offers bad news for the Red State South:
Two very daunting facts will explode like bombs on the post-election morning of Nov. 5, cratering every Southern state with the possible exception of Florida: The Democrats no longer need Dixie to claim a national majority, and that marginalization means the South will rate a very, very low priority in Washington.

The whole column is here.

2 Comments:

At 11:38 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

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At 1:11 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is just a recycling of the pipe dreams of a certain wing of the Democratic Party. John Kerry said the same thing four years ago.

Can any national party really write off a region that is both home to roughly a quarter of the nation's population and is the nation's second-fastest growing (behind the West?

 

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