[elli1]

...''everybody always makes the mistake of looking South.''

Mistake? Post-Kennedy, IIRC the only Dems to have won the WH were from the South...LBJ, Carter, Bubba... Post-Kennedy, no candidate ''identified'' as from the NE has won the presidency...(GHWBush more closely identified w/ Texas.)

[Redcoat LI]

"no candidate ''identified'' as from the NE has won the presidency..."

Nor should they,a liberal elitist has no idea about issues that are shared by the rest of the country,his arrogant statement dismissing the South disqualifies him to hold national elective office.
The values of the South are far more representative of the American way of life than a Massachusetts liberal.

[dirtboy]

Post-Kennedy, IIRC the only Dems to have won the WH were from the South

And Kennedy, for all his flaws, was a tax-cutting national security Democrat - something unthinkable for the Donkey Party nowadays.

[fqued]

It goes a bit further. . .

In the last forty years, every president has been from the South or the West. The North has ALWAYS lost, especially a northern liberal.

1964 Texas wins
1968 California wins, northern lib loses
1972 California wins, northern lib loses
1976 Georgia wins, Michigan loses
1980 California wins, Georgia loses (West v. South, clincher is that Carter was percieved as a wimp)
1984 California wins, northern lib loses
1988 sorta Texas/sorta NE wins, northern lib loses (sorta South beats out northern lib)
1992 South v. South v. sorta South/sorta NE - real South wins
1996 Arkansas wins, Kansas loses
2000 South v. South

If Kerry or Dean is nominated, you have:
South v. northern lib. South wins.

Also, Senators don't win, but governors & veeps have a good shot.

[webstersII]

"Mistake? Post-Kennedy, IIRC the only Dems to have won the WH were from the South..."

Yeah, that's true. But so many Yankees have moved down here the last couple of decades that there's not much "southern-ness" left.

[SamAdams76]

Being that most of my family lives down South, I have the opportunity to visit there often. When I visit my folks in northern Alabama, I often talk politics with people from around there. Once they get over the shock that I'm not a Kennedy-voting, effeminate communist and that Massachusetts actually has a few people that think like them, they open up a little. Well I'm going there in April and I can't wait to see what they think of John Kerry.

I can still remember back in 1988 when Dukakis was running. To folks down there, Mike Dukakis seemed like a space alien to them. They couldn't believe that there were people out there that would actually consider such a strange man for president. They are going to have lots to say about John Kerry, I am sure.