[goldstategop]

Yeah really. The Democrats have a party organization in many Southern states... NOT!!!

[PhiKapMom]

All anyone has to do in the South is remind everyone that Dean was the Governor of Vermont -- nothing else needs said! Dems sure must think we are stupid if all they think they have to do from New England is show up and speak!

[dufekin]

Stop. Many, indeed in many states, most, Southerners are in fact Democrats (of the DINO variety, of the KKK variety, and of the African-American variety).

The DINO Democrats are a veritable dinosaur, not realizing that they're still registered as Democrats and voting pretty much straight-ticket Republican in national elections (although they sometimes vote for conservative Zell Miller style Dixiecrats in state elections). Most Southern Democrats enthusiastically supported the reelection of President George W. Bush. The national Democratic Party has no interest in courting these voters; similarly, these voters have no interest in courting the national Democratic Party.

The KKK Democrats are a rapidly dying breed in the Old Deep South. Jim Crow politicians placated these once-numerous poor whites in the bygone days of the Solid South largely by playing the divisive race canard to give their base a false sense of superiority and empowerment. With the enfranchisement of African-Americans (thanks largely to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.), the political power of the KKK Democrats faded into a mere vestige, as, predictably, did the Democratic Party of the old Solid South. The KKK wing of the Democratic Party is, however, somewhat more popular these days in states closer to the Democrats' Northeastern geographic base. In West Virginia, where they have elected one of their own to the United States Senate.

And the African-American Democrats--well, they're about 2% of the Vermont electorate at most. Likewise, the liberal Democrat socialists comprise a measly 2% or less of the Southern electorate despite their dominance of the Vermont electorate. And Southern blacks continue to slip away from the Democratic plantation.

So what's the Democrats' Southern strategy? Maybe trying to recruit a moderately conservative red-state governor popular at home to represent the party as its presidential candidate. But, could such a person manage to placate the treasonous hard-socialist base without eroding his popularity at home and making a serious contest of a few Southern states? I doubt it.

The Democrats' strategy should include some procreation and an abhorrence of legalized abortion, ...

[Servant of the 9]

Yeah really. The Democrats have a party organization in many Southern states... NOT!!!

The Democraps have effective county organizations in most counties in the South, but they are effective locally by having nothing to do with the national party.

SO9