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that Southern Accent is sure a deal killer isn't it...

First, Texas is unique. Texans will be the first to tell you that. It's really not Southern (like, say, Mississippi, Arkansas, South Carolina, and Georgia). Florida is similarly not Southern, despite its physical geography.

Second, although the current incumbent has a Southern accent, everyone knows that his father, mother, and grandparents certainly do not. Everyone also knows the president is, at heart, as much a Yalee and a Harvard MBA as a drawling Texan.

Third, the main stream media do not hate Southern Democrats like Carter and Clinton as they hate Southern Republicans. They hated Johnson, but were stuck with him as the heir to Camelot and as Goldwater's alternative.

Fourth, Carter and Clinton were both incredibly lucky. Carter started his campaign the day after the 1972 election. Watergate and Ed Bradley being assigned to Carter's campaign were huge breaks for Carter. His Iowa campaign was a stroke of genius (which, unfortunately for us, seems to have departed Carter once actually in Washington). Clinton was blessed by the "Reform" party and its loony leader whose name I can't recall.
BR> If the GOP nominates a Southerner, look for all sorts of documentaries and specials about Jessie Helms, Strom Thurmond (not to be mentioned will be his being a Democrat when his outrageous statements were made), and David Dukes.

As a Southern-born Southerner, I know exactly what Yankees think of us. And it's not much.

As a 7th generation Southern born Southerner from a still Southern state (Mississippi).

I disagree.

I disagree that any but the western most Texan is not a Southerner.

However. I would agree that only pockets of Florida south of Lake City remain Southern. Clewiston probably being one of the most deep Southern outposts. We used to say Florida was Southern north of Orlando but that is not really accurate now post-Mouse era.

The west coast and NE states you refer to don't matter. They don't vote (R) anyhow even if they do loathe Southerners.

What does matter is the South, Rockies and Midwest. And I can tell ya that folks in rural PA or Indiana have nothing against a Southern accent.

Is it a coincidence as well that both national leaders in Congress are Southern too? (Frist-DeLay)

Now Bush has a more southern accent than I do. I assume he picked it up in Midland as a boy.

So tell me again Texas ain't Southern.

You did pick a nice muddy river for your name...one that gave the Yankees fits btw.

We shall see.

I will never make an excuse about being Southern or an accent. I think Southerners are the best orators in the nation and I think historically time and again that has been proven correct. Do you think certain Yankees worry about grating accents? And who cares about what the MSM thinks? They aside from FOX are no longer relevant except they are part of the opposition.