Here's another myth Dodd, Fwank & Kennedy all your Yankee brethren. Oh wait, that's no myth.
Likewise, Jimmy Carter, Cynthia McKinney and Ray Nagin can all be said to be your southern brethren. And considering all three are, or started. as Democrats, their linkage to the Confederacy is much greater than that between the northern Democrats to Lincoln and his Republican associates. Jefferson Davis to Cynthia McKinney, the tradition of southern Democrats.