So Much For The "Solid Republican South"

[ThomWV]

If there is any good news in this it may very well be that the Republican Party's solid lock on the south may very well have been broken.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. If people in the Gulf still vote Repub after this...... man, how

could they unless they were nuts?



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[rzemanfl]

2. Too bad that to break the lock all the houses had to go....n/t

[whistle]

3. The Southern strategy has been about reducing civil rights...

...for blacks and returning to segregation in the South.

[jody]

4. I don't see how Bush can get any of the AA vote after NO. n/t

[rwenos]

5. Remember Strom Thurmond?

Remember what Trent Lott said at Thurmond's 100th birthday party? "If what you wanted for the South, Strom, had been enacted, there would have been a lot less problems over the last 40 years."

THAT's why the Pubs will still run very strong in the South.

Think hoods made of white sheets, crosses burning, three K's in a row.

[melody]

7. my great-grandfather helped run the Klan out of their southern community

Not all of the south is Klan-run anymore than urban LA is run by Bloods and Crips...thank god.

[rwenos]

9. I Didn't Infer The Klan Runs the South

Rather, I hope, I inferred there is an abundant reservoir of covert racism in the South, unexpressed in mixed-race company, but alive and well on the back roads.

On many of those roads, the white-sheet mentality is also alive and well -- even if nobody holds those meetings anymore.

And holy cow -- there's Klan in California. Who are we kidding?!?

[NYC]

6. Maxine Waters, Democrat, is going to rescue people.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090405Y.shtml

...So they've come up with their own plan: to load the remaining residents on buses they've chartered and bring them to England Air Force Base, a shuttered military installation in Alexandria, La.

"My soul wouldn't let me sit and watch this on TV," says Waters, who represents South Central Los Angeles. "I'm just shocked that people have been living for five days, and dying, on the streets of this country. So I came down here, and my friend Cleo Fields came up with this wonderful possibility."

That wonderful possibility, hatched by state Sen. Cleo Fields and the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus, is to house the displaced residents at the Air Force base instead of shelters and sports stadiums like the Astrodome, many of which are full anyway. They haven't gotten permission to do that, but that's not stopping them. The black leaders say racism is behind both the late response to the emergency and the dispersal of rescued residents far away from New Orleans...

[Prodemsouth]

8. I don't think so, most victims were black, most voters are white.

I am a white southerner, I don't think Republicans will lose that much down here. Most whites, esp white men are the racist, right wingers that most here think they are. Blacks are being effectively disenfranchised down here through high tech means. Instead of Jim Crowe we have ID cards and black box voting with no recorded results, look at the purge in voter roles in Florida by Harris. They are doing what their grand dads or great grand dads did, only instead of being "Democrats" they are Republicans.
My advice to Dems: forget about the south- yes compete where you think you can down here. But the best bet and I will say it till I am blue in the face is knocking off Republicans Moderates like Snowe and Chafee. Also go after house members like them. Use your resources in states where Dems have been winning like RI ME, PA, MT, and other blue states.