A new "Solid South" ?

[dazzleman]

The Democrats are seriously out-of-step with the south, since the party is dominated by condescending northern liberals who look down on southerns as lower-level creatures that need to be housebroken.

That's why the Democrats will continue to do poorly in the south.  This attitude was very apparent in Dean's comments, right down to the assumption that "poor" southerners (I guess we can assume that all southerners are poor) vote against their economic interests (presumably because they're too stupid to know what their interests are).  The Democrats believe southerners must be convinced to abandon the issues that matter to them so they can vote Democratic.

It should be pointed out to Mr. Dean that many of his supporters also vote against their own economic interests, by his definition.  They're mostly high income people who favor higher taxes on the "rich."

Because Clinton (unlike Gore) actually came across as a southerner, he was able to do well enough in the south to win 2 elections.  I wouldn't rule out that happening in the future, but I think it will be sporadic and take a special type of candidate.  And that candidate is not Howard Dean or John Kerry.

[dazzleman]

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Well, we are but of course the war is a fake.  About half of Americans understand this, or at least think it was a big waste of time:

Yes, I guess what happened on Sept. 11, 2001 was a fake.  Right.  You must be smoking some real good s**t in Thailand.