Well, I am talking about the Dems in the South…..the last mid-term in 2010 pretty much crapped all over the conservative Blue Dog Dems……the last remaining parts of the old Dem Party of the South…..the world was lost to the Dems with the passage of the Civil rights Act 0f the 1960’s……and the Party has never rebounded from that situation……

There is an old bumper sticker that says…”The South Shall Rise Again”…..total crap but I think that the Dem Party has shot its wad in the South……never to return as a viable alternative to the GOP…..

A little history for those not in the know….from the Economist…….

AFTER President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he reportedly turned to his press secretary and lamented that Democrats “have lost the South for a generation.” Johnson’s judgment was optimistic. Despite brief flashes of strength during the presidential elections of Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, Democrats—particularly white Democrats—have been losing ground in the South for half a century.In the Congress that passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the eleven former Confederate states—Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia—had a total of 128 senators and representatives, of whom 115 were white Democrats (see chart). In 1981 Republicans took control of the Senate for the first time since 1953, but most Southern elected officials remained white Democrats. When Republicans took control of the House in 1995, white Democrats still comprised one-third of the South’s tally.

Some have argued that such conservatism dilutes the Democratic brand: that Democrats lost in November because voters knew what Republicans stood for but could not say the same of Democrats. Ari Berman, author of “Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics”, wrote in the New York Times that “Democrats would be in better shape and would accomplish more with a smaller and more ideologically cohesive caucus.” If by “accomplishing more” Mr Berman means “make liberals feel better”, he might be right; but if he means “pass more legislation”, he is wrong. Moderates and conservatives outnumber liberals in Congress, among congressional Democrats and among the electorate at large. Democrats built their 2006-10 majority by extending their reach into traditionally conservative districts. Abandoning those areas, many of them Southern, after the first mid-term election of a new president’s term—when the president’s party tends to lose seats anyway—would probably be a blunder.

The black population in the South will stay loyal to the Dems….unfortunately they do not vote heavily, as a rule…..but the whites will now be totally behind the GOP and its conserv platform….even though the Dems offer more in the way of services to all Southerns….they will continually vote against their own best interests……not the sharpest pencils in the political box…..

I mean come on!  There are still Southerns trying to sell the Civil War as a matter of state’s rights and not slavery…..you can try to sell that piece of mis-information for so long…..why?  History contradicts that argument……