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The so-called journalist made two errors just in the excerpt.

George W. Bush wasn’t born in Mass.; he was born in Conn.

Rick Perry is not a Southerner; he’s a Texan. Texas is not one of the Southern States, and neither are NM and AZ.

I guess to the elites in the Northeast everyone South of them lives in Southern States.

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Oooops!

I should read more slowly.

I thought the journalist was referring to #43, who was born in Conn., but I see now that it was #41 and he WAS born in Mass.

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Texas is not one of the Southern States...

That's news to Jefferson Davis (who was also offered the presidency of Texas A&M).