[Daffynition]

A view from across the pond.

[Uriah_lost]

The second to last paragraph pretty well shows how very, very little this author knows.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

The fat lady hasn’t sung yet!

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Rather insulting of the South. The center of the American population is moving west....and south. The North is the part of the country where the population is not growing very much.

Also interesting that they list racists as social conservatives.

[Congressman Billybob]

An over-simplified, ignorant, view from across the pond. What the Frenchman, de Toqueville, saw in America about a century and a half ago, is still more accurate about the South (and pockets of people elsewhere in the nation) than this twaddle.

Congressman Billybob

Latest article, "Dan Rather, CBS, Plus Duke"

[Freedom4US]

It looks different from over there

[trumandogz]

To its detractors it is a terrifying and contemptible land full of racist rednecks, Bible-toting hypocrites and downtrodden blacks.

That is a very narrow view of my homeland.

[SunkenCiv]

Google

[Cedar]

Good thing...keep them bad stories coming about our beloved South. We like for outsiders to continue to keep their distance.

:)

[SunkenCiv]

“The passage of civil rights legislation marked the start of the long decline of the Democratic Party in the South.”

Democratic Debacle (1964 convention, repercussions today)
America Heritage | July 2004 (cover date) | Joshua Zeitz
Posted on 07/28/2004 12:59:49 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1179981/posts

Only one thing stood in the way of party harmony: the Mississippi Freedom Democrats. If the national convention agreed to seat the MFDP instead of the Mississippi regulars... all hell would break loose among the other Southern state delegations... What precise words Johnson and Humphrey exchanged in late August may never be known, but by the time the MFDP began presenting its case to the Credentials Committee on Saturday, August 22, it was clear that Johnson had dangled the Vice Presidency before his friend from Minnesota. However, the prize carried a steep price. Humphrey would have to cash in on his liberal credentials to stop the convention from seating the MFDP.

[SunkenCiv]

reprise, probably a dead link, omitted two more, similar, different authors, one with the same title, which appeared in Slate.

Forget the South
by Ryan Lizza
December 14, 2003
(originally www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/magazine/14FORGET.html)

Al Gore's failing in 2000, they say, was not that he couldn't win in the South, but that he couldn't nail down New England. If Gore had been able to muster a few thousand more votes in New Hampshire, he would have won the presidency without a single Southern state. For some Democrats, this insight has led to a heretical theory about next year's presidential election: Forget the South. The Forget-the-South argument has little to do with anti-Dixie bias. Instead, it is based on simple mathematics. Consider the numbers. Democrats and Republicans agree that Bush and his eventual rival will each start the race with an ironclad base of states that are virtually unwinnable for the other party. Bush's base is rooted in the South, plains and interior West of the country, while the Democratic nominee can take for granted most of New England, the West Coast and a smattering of the Midwest.