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"In fact, John F Kennedy is the most recent non-Southern Democrat to win a Southern state."

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Actually, Hubert Humphrey (from Minnesota) carried Texas in 1968. But JFK was the last non-Southerner to get as much as 45% in any Southern state (including Kentucky and Oklahoma). That's an even more telling sign of how difficult it is for Kerry to carry any Southern state. even Florida, in which less than half the people are really "Southern," will be very difficult for Kerry because he will get swamped in conservative-Democrat North Florida.

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Actually, Hubert Humphrey (from Minnesota) carried Texas in 1968. But JFK was the last non-Southerner to get as much as 45% in any Southern state (including Kentucky and Oklahoma).

Sort of misleading, though, since the Democrats have only run four non-Southerners since then, and two were against popular incumbents, and a third was in a race with George Wallace in it.