BTW: I really wish that I agree with you, but we are no longer in Ronald Reagan’s American (or FDR’s America for that matter). The issues of bussing/neighborhood integration/crime that drove the white Democrats to vote for Nixon and Reagan are gone, and their kids either went to college (and to better neighborhoods and careers) or simply moved left on cultural issues. The world of 2008 is WAY different from 1980 in many ways, even if one looks only at the northeast.
How would you know? It has not been tried since 94, and even then the party was against it. Try it, You'll like it.