Whistling Past Dixie

[Cayahougac]

There still hasn't been a Democrat who's won the presidency without carrying any ex-Confederate states, and until that happens "the South" as a whole is not worth triaging based on elitist conceptions of what a Democratic-leaning area should be, especially since many of the Dems' core demographics are concentrated there.
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So basically the thesis of what's the matter with Kansas?