This might be a dumb question but.....

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.....until mid 60s early 70s when Lib Dems began to shove busing and other social experimentation down the throats of white southerners.  Except for the 1976 Presidential Election (when southerners were fooled into believing Jimmah was going to be a southern conservative - haha - threw his ass out in 80 when it became known he was just another lib Democrat) no lib has carried a southern state.   (one exception - HHH barely won Texas in 68 when George Wallace split the conservative vote with Nixon).  I know, I know.  Some of you will say what about Bill Clinton.  Yes, was a liberal but campaiged as a southern "moderate"  and "Bubba" won some southern states.  No way Hillary pulls that off no matter how much she uses her new Selma accent.

Hillary or Obama will lose every southern state in 08 although some Dems on this board are delusional enough to think Hillary will carry Arkansas or somehow northern Va is going to flip Va.  Deam on.  Same Dems who thought in 04 pretty boy Edwards was somehow going to make North Carolina competitive.

Dems will try the strategy they tried in 04 - win all the Gore states and flip Ohio.  The Democratic nominee won't set foot in the South unless it is to go after individual donors.  The one exception will be Florida.  It will be fool's gold just as it was for Kerry.

The South is no more competitive at the Presidential level for Dems than the Northeast or California is for Republicans.