A cultural disconnect in Dixie The southern states are looking for different sorts of Democrats

US News & World Report ^ | Feb 14, 2005 issue | Dan Gilgoff

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Mike Easley would be a good Democratic presidential candidate. He's pro-choice but in other respects he's Southern and pro-gun, pro-hunting, and pro-capital punishment. A no-no to the coastal liberal elites who now control the national Democratic Party.

Denny Crane: There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News."

[Alia]

Interesting article, thanks for posting.

Democrats here in NC continue to not only follow in CA's footsteps with onerous new "taxes" in the name of Democrat Values which folks reject; BUT Democrats are ushering in a girlie-man mentality -- not just in laws, but in the schools. I hear John Edwards is now working for or with the Poverty Law Center at UNC. Now, perhaps he hasn't figured out -- in the West "Poverty Law" groups are pure socialists. I don't think it's going to take long for Southerners to catch on to this -- unless the media buries what the Poverty Law groups is up to.

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The problem is John Edwards and the extreme libs are not as smooth as Easley. No way they can win NC voters over. Edwards didn't even bother running for re-election in the Tarheel State and he didn't help carry it for French Boy.

Denny Crane: There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News."

[Always Right]

The baby-killing, gun-grabbing, America-hating Democrats have a strong-hold on their party at the national level.

[stopem]

Sounds like he is Republican light except for the prochoice stance.

In my humble opinion, unless things change dramatically on the political front we wont have to worry about a dem being elected in 2008. They have absolutely nothing to offer that the majority want in their President.

[Jim Noble]

"We have churches and values," she says, "and we have to make that clear." A wave of red flags ripples across the room. Grumbles activist Don Esterling, 62: "We don't need to be Republican light."

It's getting harder and harder for the RATs to lie about who and what they are.

"Activist" Don Esterling hates the churches, and the people who go to them, and their values.

He and his allies have been hiding it for years, it has been pissing them off to have to lie about it, they've HAD ENOUGH and they're NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE!

YEEEAGH!

[kittymyrib]

Easly is a bait-and-switch candidate on abortion. He's against it, but it's okay if you kill babies. When will Christians wake up and throw candidates like him out of office?

[Jim Noble]

Former four-term North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt, a Democrat, says he framed educational initiatives as what God wants : "Too many of our candidates are reluctant to mention God. [Voters] think if you don't talk about it, you must not have those feelings."

And in that sentence, the gulf is revealed.

It's not a feeling.

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In other words, a DINO. The last thing the Democrats will do my friend, is nominate one even if it meant forfeiting the White House another 8 years. They'd rather be Red and lose than move to the center and win an election.

Denny Crane: There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News."

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In other words, southerners prefer Dems who don't feel the US, with a Republican at the helm, is the center of all evil in the universe.

[ken5050]

LOL..Easley would record the first ever NEGATIVE vote in the Iowa caucuses and NH primaries..Until the Dem party solves that little problem..

[Blueflag]

LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE!!!!

"Democrats lost their iron grip on Dixie after spearheading the civil rights bills of the 1960s."

I don't think so! A simple fact check would have pointed out the prominent role of REPUBLICANS supporting Civil Rights. The Democrats started really losing the South when the candidates and their messengers continued to insult Southerners and the VALUES they hold.

And continuing to insinuate that the South still wishes for the old racist South is a insulting as it is ignorant.

The Democrats LOST the South because they alienated Southerners.

[goldstategop]

He must have done something right for conservative and moderate North Carolinians to split their votes between him and Bush.

Denny Crane: There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News."

[goldstategop]

Its the values, stupid. My advice to Hunt is, fudgitboutit. Those Yankees are slow learners.

Denny Crane: There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News."

[goldstategop]

LOL! The Left thinks Southerners are folks like the ones in Hazzard County. Corrupt, loveable, funny, and slow-witted - like Jefferson Davis Hogg.

Denny Crane: There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News."

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Howard Dean's RATS are going for that guy with the confederate flag on the back of his pickup truck. They're not going to find him at NCCU.

[Alia]

Easley does have the talent of Southern unflappability. I got to hear it. But Easley is very quietly easing the way for liberal ways to enter the state. He provides cover, while the liberals wrangle and meet him halfway. It's foil.

[Alia]

Easily is doing the policy of "incrementalism". Di-Fi did the same thing in CA.

[Alia]

LOL! That was the first "blue state flag" item I caught in the article: That lie about Dems leading the "civil rights movement" in the South. The teachers here, are quite interesting. Just as Berkeley moved their "free speech" grads to my highschool in the late 60s and early 70s, those same twits are showing up to teach in NC schools. And oh my! The whining about the scores... more parents should be concerned about what is going on inside the classroom, vis a vis so-called instruction. It's how the libs took over CA schools. And bit by bit, the youths became wild and unruly. Schools blamed "families". And began designing lots and lots of programs to "teach" families. The spread of socialism and grotty liberalism.