Historians of DU--- A question for you all

Did a Yankee or Western Democratic Candidate in 76 or 92 --ever use the REBEL FLAG to appeal to southern voters?

As well did Clinton or Carter do either?

Some history and wounds never heal. As well generalized miscatagorization of a group of citizens is bad politics.

Plain and simple

Candidates are like any other product, they all choose their target market :)

...fellow Georgians.

Clinton, when he was home from college, was a driver for either a statewide or federal candidate. He went to an opposition rally and was so appalled by the racism in the stump speech that he went up the Republicans and said something like, 'you make me ashamed to be an Arkansan.' When Clinton was 16, he was one of only three southerners to vote for civil rights at Boys' Nation.

I heard Molly Ivins talk about why she, as the child of died in the wool republicans, was a liberal democrat. She said that she, like most southern democrats her age were awakened politically on the issue of race.

People don't understand it, but most of our greatest Democratic politicians from Johnson to Clinton were deeply moved to become the politicians they were because of a reaction to racism. Their committment to the middle and working class, and to anyone who's just looking for opportunity was driven by seeing the failure of our society to deliver it's promises to certain people based on race.

It's only the most recent generation which doesn't accutely understand the roll of race in American society, and the more removed from it growing up, and professionally, the more confused they seem to be.

Cater used his southerness in other ways, such as joking when he campaigned in the South about how it would be nice for once not to have a president with an accdent. He also got mad (for real) when a misguided HS band at a rally outside of the south would play "Marching Through Georgia" to welcome him. :)