The Great Primary: Democrats

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Imagine if you will a world in which the spirits of the dead have returned to make visitations upon us, the living. The dead - and the politically dead, who are often the same - have decided to return to their past vocation. Towards this end every President of the 20th century has been allowed the opportunity to enter into the ranks of his Party and compete for the nomination of that Party for the Presidency of the United States in 2012.

The rules are these: the world has changed; these men have not. They are re-emerging in history exactly as they were as they left it, and may have a Hell of a time adjusting to that fact.

With that in mind, Democrats, these are your candidates:

Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Lyndon Baines Johnson
James Earl Carter
William Jefferson Clinton

Every man will compete in this primary, and every man is for himself. Each will campaign fully for the nomination regardless of ties of family or friendship. I leave the arrangements for the maps up to you.

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Carter and Wilson both get a somewhat respectable level of support in the South (both for different reasons). Clinton does about as well as Edwards in 2008. The race between Roosevelt and Kennedy for the nomination would be as close and as fiercely contested as the Obama-Clinton race in 2008. I'm not sure how well or how badly Johnson and Truman would do. 

Any thoughts on what a map may look like?

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I don't really see Carter endorsing Roosevelt. Carter ran a very tight economic ship as President in an effort to fight inflation, with Volcker's appointment to the Fed and the deregulation of the airline industry being the biggest examples. Their philosophies differ in their basics.