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The South: Will The Last Dem Turn Out The Lights?
Business Week Online ^ | December 19, 2003 | Richard S. Dunham

Posted on 12/19/2003 9:41:07 AM PST by afuturegovernor

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:16:44 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

The South: Will The Last Dem Turn Out The Lights?

The Washington that Senator John Breaux is leaving is a vastly different place than the capital the Louisiana Democrat arrived in 35 years ago in a rented U-Haul truck. A pragmatic moderate and consummate dealmaker, Breaux has come to feel like a crawfish out of water in the poisonous partisan swamp of Capitol Hill, where, as he put it in announcing his retirement on Dec. 15, "cooperation and legitimate compromise between our political parties [is now] seen as political failure."


(Excerpt) Read more at businessweek.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: 2004; breaux; electionushouse; electionussenate; realignment; south; southerndemocrats
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1 posted on 12/19/2003 9:41:08 AM PST by afuturegovernor
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To: afuturegovernor
"...cooperation and legitimate compromise between our political parties [is now] seen as political failure.


For most of those 35 years, Democrats controlled Congress, and it was the Repulicans that "compromised" to get anything. The only difference now, is that the Democrats do not like being a minority, and they certainly do not like living by the rules they created.

2 posted on 12/19/2003 9:47:30 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (teach me to post before I get my morning cup of coffee)
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To: afuturegovernor
"...Republican like Haley Barbour was able to win 80% of the white vote and oust Democratic Governor Ronnie Musgrove of Mississippi in November.


...and Democrats get 90%+ of black votes, what is the point?

You have to pity the poor Democrats, the world is changing and they do not know what to do. All the old lies do not work anymore.

3 posted on 12/19/2003 9:50:58 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (teach me to post before I get my morning cup of coffee)
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To: afuturegovernor
Here's a cute example of bias in the article:

" That's because Republicans may oust up to seven Texas Dems if a harshly partisan redistricting plan survives court challenges."

4 posted on 12/19/2003 9:57:04 AM PST by capt. norm
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To: afuturegovernor
...the GOP takeover of Dixie that started with Barry Goldwater's 1964 campaign

Out of the ashes of the 64 debacle arose the current take over of the GOP in the south.

Many thanks to those old Goldwater conservatives that paid the price and made it happen. The "Conscience Of A Conservative" still echos in the minds of Southerners.

The words of Goldwater rang in their ears, as they should today. "I am not calling for return to the naked power of politics of the nineteenth century. I am not asking that we declare hot war on Russia or turn a deaf ear to the pleas of help from destitute nations. I am willing to be as modern as anyone, as long as modernism does not constitute a debasing of our traditional values. But if to be modern I must accede to policies that would turn the foreign affairs of the United States over to the United Nations, disarm our great military machine, welcome Red China into the Committee of Nations, give away our food and technical skills to the so-called neutralist nations, and get nothing in return...if this is what is meant, then indeed I am not modern and never want to be."We are conservatives. This great Republican Party is our historical house. This is our home. Senator Barry Goldwater struck a cord at the 1960 Republican convention when he withdrew his name from nomination for the presidency. His words resounded over the next four years to encourage conservatives to join the fight, to make that home comfortable".

5 posted on 12/19/2003 10:01:43 AM PST by TUX
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To: afuturegovernor
"The Democrats have to remake themselves in the South," concedes party strategist Donna Brazile.

Dean getting the Dem nomination for president should certainly help [/sarcasm]

6 posted on 12/19/2003 10:01:47 AM PST by pabianice
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To: afuturegovernor; WKB; Hottie Tottie; MagnoliaMS; MississippiMan; vetvetdoug; NerdDad; ...
Mississippi ping!
7 posted on 12/19/2003 10:01:51 AM PST by dixiechick2000 (President Bush is a mensch in cowboy boots.)
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To: CIB-173RDABN
...and Democrats get 90%+ of black votes, what is the point?

Black Democrats make up just 8% of the people who vote for president. 90 X .08 = 7.2% of the total vote, and Black voters are concentrated in areas that vote Dem anyway. Black Liberal voter clout is a dying dinosaur.

8 posted on 12/19/2003 10:04:26 AM PST by pabianice
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To: pabianice
"The Democrats have to remake themselves in the South," concedes party strategist Donna Brazile.

Without morals or standards any group will always be trying "to remake themselves." Ha..Ha..Ha..and that's their dirty little problem that maybe, just maybe is being revealed. There is glory in standards and morals, and they will have NO glory until they figure that one out.

9 posted on 12/19/2003 10:06:49 AM PST by goodnesswins (Happy HOLY Days)
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To: afuturegovernor
"Behind Republican hegemony is racial and cultural polarization. Many conservative whites see the Democrats as the party of minorities and urban elites who favor gay marriage, gun control, affirmative action, and abortion rights. That's why a good ol' Republican like Haley Barbour was able to win 80% of the white vote and oust Democratic Governor Ronnie Musgrove of Mississippi in November."

I'm sick of this racist portrayal that liberals use to explain their failure to "keep" the South. While I can buy the cultural differences, racial attitudes are now, no different that they are in the north. In fact, you have more blacks and minorities holding political office in the Southern states, than you do in the north. And the last time I checked, it was nothern...liberal controlled cities, like LA (ok...its west) and Cincinnatti that were having racial problems (riots, beatings). It wasn't the cops in Atlanta who sodamized a black man or accidentally shot another.

While these problems exist around the nation, the idea that the South is any more racist, simply because Democrats are losing control of it, is BS. There are racists in the South, just as there are racists in the North...and I see segregation in both regions. If they want to know why they're losing control, look no further than their liberal elite "progressive" attitide that's destroying faith and family. There's a reason the South is known as the Bible Belt...and liberal ideals run completely contrary to those in the South. And lets not forget that many Northern businesses have migrated to the South, because many states are "right-to-work" states, were employers aren't held captive to Nothern unions. It doesn't cross their minds that these reasons are the reason that the South is a growing Republican, conservative region. Nah...they can only explain their failure by labling it a result of racism.
10 posted on 12/19/2003 10:11:09 AM PST by cwb (ç†)
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To: afuturegovernor
A pragmatic moderate and consummate dealmaker Big Spender of Other People's Money, Stolen by Force
11 posted on 12/19/2003 10:13:55 AM PST by Hank Rearden (Dick Gephardt. Before he dicks you.)
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To: afuturegovernor; MeeknMing; JohnHuang2

Dean's Flag Comment Stirs Southern Ire

Republicans wins Kentucky and Mississippi governor race

NOTE TO ALL DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: KEEP BASHING THE SOUTH!

(This is for you Dean: How many of them drive pickup trucks?)

Send it to the DNC for mass distribution.


More like foot in mouth (Bigfoot, that is!)

I asked to see what a METROSexual looked like and BAM!

Howard Dean

Howard Dean


Howard Dean says he's running for President, and on paper he's quite a candidate.

He's the longest-serving Democratic governor. He signed the first law in the country to allow gay unions. And, he's got the endorsement of America's favorite president-that-isn't: Martin Sheen.

Google Search for Metrosexual

HELP!

metrosexual (aka Male Democrat)
(MET.roh.sek.shoo.ul) n. A dandyish narcissist in love with not only himself, but also his urban lifestyle; a straight man who is in touch with his feminine side.
metrosexuality n.

Example Citation:
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—Jonathan Trew, "I love me so much," The Scotsman, July 24, 2002





12 posted on 12/19/2003 10:17:16 AM PST by Happy2BMe (2004 - Who WILL the TERRORISTS vote for? - - Not George W. Bush, THAT'S for sure!)
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To: afuturegovernor
Mississippi and Lousiana are a universe apart. I don't think a Republican has a chance of getting a higher vote tally than a Democrat in a statewide "election" in Lousiana.
13 posted on 12/19/2003 10:20:33 AM PST by stevem
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To: CIB-173RDABN
Now if only we could keep the retiring democrats from migrating south...
14 posted on 12/19/2003 10:22:51 AM PST by longtermmemmory (Vote!)
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To: pabianice; dixiechick2000
Black voters are concentrated in areas that vote Dem anyway

Except for the South where most blacks live and where they are at their highest percentages of the population in the nation. There whites tend to vote Pubbie.

17 posted on 12/19/2003 10:29:51 AM PST by wardaddy ("either the arabs are at your throat, or at your feet")
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To: afuturegovernor
The Democrat Party is now the party of extremists. The sooner the Democrats are thrown out of office the better.
18 posted on 12/19/2003 10:29:53 AM PST by Savage Beast (My parents, grandparents, and greatgrandparents were Democrats. My children are Republicans.)
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To: afuturegovernor
Many conservative whites see the Democrats as the party of minorities and urban elites who favor gay marriage, gun control, affirmative action, and abortion rights.

Well, Democrats DO favor gay marriage, gun control, special privileges for Democrat voters, and baby killing. It's all true. The thing is, some of us don't think those things are right.

19 posted on 12/19/2003 10:32:18 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: CIB-173RDABN
Considering that abortion-on-demand, voucher opposition, the homosexual agenda and the removal of Christianity from public life are major planks of the Democratic platform, it's only a matter of time before the trickle of southern blacks leaving the Dems for the GOP becomes a torrent. Many of them support affirmative action and government handouts, but they take their faith much more seriously.
20 posted on 12/19/2003 10:40:39 AM PST by bobjam
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