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  • Democrats Covet The West But Can't Keep Losing The South (Dems Left Whistling Dixie Alert)

    05/16/2005 2:25:29 AM PDT · by goldstategop · 35 replies · 1,202+ views
    Los Angeles Times ^ | 05/16/05 | Ronald Brownstein
    But new long-term population projections from the Census Bureau show that anyone who believes Democrats can consistently win the White House without puncturing the Republican dominance across the South is just whistling Dixie. The census projections present Democrats with an ominous equation: the South is growing in electoral clout even as the Republican hold on the region solidifies. Veteran demographer William H. Frey, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank, this month extrapolated the census numbers into projections for the electoral college over the next quarter century. His conclusions, in a paper titled "The Electoral College Moves to...