Reply #9: Hmm [View All]

The South had Dale Bumpers of Arkansas, Reuben Askew of Florida, Jimmy Carter of Georgia, and William Waller of Mississippi in the 70s. It also had one George Corley Wallace of Alabama who in 1982 won on a progressive populist platform with a coalition of blacks, working class whites and labor.

Perhaps you mean the South was not and is not socially and culturally liberal, which probably rings true.

Still, that's not why we lose there. We don't talk economics to working people anymore. Why should socially conservative, economicaly populist working people in Mississippi vote Dem when the Dems don't address their biggest concerns which are making ends meet, having a decent paying job, trade, better health care, bread and butter issues? The Dems prefer to talk about gay marriage and balanced budgets. If the Dems want to be a liberal upper middle class party, they won't win in the South - or most anywhere else.