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The Democrats, as a post-Jimmy Carter party, have pretty much abandoned the South. The fiction that the "Former Occupant of the Oval Office, 1993-2001" represented anything about the South as a region was perpetrated by the power centers in the Northeast and the Left Coast. As a job, being governor of Arkansas was not all that lucrative, but the potential for guiding a few additional perks to yourself was a tantalizing prospect. And it gained ingress to a circle perhaps even more select than the US Senate, the caucus of governors. The "Former Occupant of the Oval Office, 1993-2001" worked the room among the Democrat governors well, and at times seemed to be the seasoned pro. He developed an almost Machiavellian talent for finesse and parsing of meanings, which made him seem to be a more intelligent and learned person than he was in reality. But what he represented was not the South, old or new. He was a usurper who set out to hijack the Democrat party, and he was extraordinarily successful. The Democrats are still in trall to him and his venomous viper of a spouse.