[goldstategop]

What the Democrats face in the South can be summed up in this question:

“What are they going to do to win back Southern whites?”

The Democratic Party, according to Charlie Cook, is fast becoming a no-fly zone for downstairs voters in the electorate. And in addition to losing them, the Democrats now represent minority-majority districts on the state and federal level throughout the South.

In short the party's problems stem more than just from a bad off-year election. Its shedding people left and right who aren't coming back. If that happened to a business, it would soon be forced to close its doors. What happens to a political party brand that's now hit rock bottom? We'll soon find out.

[Publius]

What happens to a political party brand that's now hit rock bottom?

It splinters. Look up "Whigs".

[proxy_user]

Say, what about Bill Nelson? Isn’t Florida part of the South?

[eyeamok]

What they a e losing is anybody that is employed. The moocher class is still there for them.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

The answer is obvious. The Democrat party represents three tiers:

(1) The filthy rich and powerful elite that controls the party at the top (The Pelosis, Reids, Obama, Clintons, etc)

(2) The leftist special-interest groups that pretend to represent America as a whole (The civil-rights establishment, the homosexual lobby, the envirowackos, the unions, etc)

(3) At the bottom of the pyramid, are the bottom-feeders: welfare, food-stamp, and Section 8 Housing recipients, illegal aliens, those working menial, minimum-wage jobs, black thugs and criminals.

That's who the Democrat Party is today, and that's why they are losing.

[PGR88]

Dems plan?

Have the Fed print more money for social engineering schemes, more welfare and more government

Give the money to the South.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

I don’t think the southern states are happy with being forced to recognize homosexual marriage. That has to be some of it.

[Paleo Conservative]

[rrrod]

lowlife, sleazy scumbag Bill Nelson of Florida is the last one .....he will be gone next election.

[Paleo Conservative]

http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4472425%2Flandrieu-unelect-dont-like-obamacare

[CatherineofAragon]

“South’s shift to conservatism”

Well, I wish Virginia would get the memo.

[txnativegop]

“Democrats are becoming a party of big cities and college towns, and not much beyond that,” Cook said. “For whatever reason, non-college-educated white voters are looking at the Democratic Party and they don’t see it as representing them. Why is it the libs think that conservatives are uneducated?

[SamAdams76]

Whites still make up 77% of the U.S. population.

Not a good strategy for the Democrats to take their white base for granted and condemn them in order to curry favor with the 23% who are not white.

[A_Former_Democrat]

The racial divide has become even more prounounced. It’s taken awhile for people to stop the denial and wake up about the charade of liberals when it comes to “diversity” crap

[aMorePerfectUnion]

I suspect it is a repulsion away from state control, loss of liberties, lousy economy and liberalism - not a shift to conservatism. Only time will tell. In the meantime, it will be only as good as the courage in the face of RINOs exhibited by any real conservatives who show up in DC... and don’t go native.

[I want the USA back]

ML showed her true colors in her campaign. Lying, personal attacks. Glad she’ll not be getting a high-paid low-effort job curtesy of the democrat party.

[Tupelo]

Don't be too quick to write off the Democrats. Don't forget we elected Republicans and most of them are now GOPe. So I figure they will find away to blow it in time to lose the White House in 2016 and maybe the Senate.

[dangus]

These puzzle me. Last I checked, Florida and Virginia were in the South.

[Impy]

They won’t win back Southern Whites.

But that doesn’t mean they can’t take back the Senate.

[uglybiker]

Now if we could just get S. Carolina to ditch Lindsey Graham.....

[fortheDeclaration]

They will do what they always do, run conservative sounding Democrats, get them elected, win the majority, pass a radical left-wing agenda, see them defeated again.

They are expendable to the Left wing controlled Democrats.