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November 10, 2010
Southern Strategy
all but Complete
White southern
Democrats
near extinction
(AP) - The white Southern Demo­
crat — endangered since the 1960s
civil rights era— is sliding nearer to
extinction.
After this week's elections, the
Democratic Party barely holds a
presence in the region outside of
majority-black urban areas such as
Atlanta and Memphis. The carnage
for the party was particularly brutal
in the Deep South, where just one
white Democrat survived across
Rep. John Spratt, D-S.C.
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama,
Georgia and South Carolina.
of Georgia and 10-term Rep. Gene
The Republicans' effort to win Taylor of Mississippi couldn't with­
over the South, rooted decades ago stand the wave. It also snared such
in a strategy to capitalize on white veterans as John Spratt of South
voters' resentment of desegrega­ Carolina, the 14-term chairman of
tion, is all but complete.
the House Budget Committee, and
"Right now in most of Dixie it is 14-term Rep. Rick Boucher of Vir­
culturally unacceptable to be a ginia.
Democrat. It's a damn shame, but
When the new Congress con­
that's the way it is," said Dave venes in January, there will be at
"Mudcat" Saunders, a campaign most 16 white Southern House mem­
strategist for conservative Demo­ bers out of 105 seats in Arkansas,
crats such as Jim Webb of Virginia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama,
one of the few remaining Southern Georgia, Florida, the Carolinas, Vir­
Democratic senators.
ginia, Tennessee and Kentucky.
The losses were particularly dis­ Two races in Virginia and Kentucky
appointing for the party after the were still too close to call, so the
baby steps it made in the South in total could be as low as 14.
2006 and 2008, when it picked up a
The setback continues a four-
host of Republican-leaning House decade decline for Democrats in the
districts and won Senate seats in South, where they once dominated.
North Carolina and Virginia. Many The slide began after the civil rights
thought the party had learned its movement, when Republicans un­
lessons and had begun to reverse der President Richard Nixon began
recent history by nominating con­ employing a Southern strategy to
servative candidates who hit the retake the region by appealing to
right notes on divisive social issues white anger over desegregation.
such as abortion and smaller gov­ The GOP later highlighted liberal
ernment.
Democratic positions on social and
None of it mattered last Tues­ welfare issues.
day.
Most of the losing Democrats
Democrats didn't just see most of this year were moderates represent­
their recent gains obliterated, they ing Republican-leaning districts.
lost at least 19 Southern House And the challenges could get even
members and a senator, Blanche tougher for Southern Democrats as
Lincoln of Arkansas. Even some of legislatures begin redrawing con­
the most conservative Democrats gressional districts from the 2 0 10
such as four-term Rep. Jim Marshall census.
Happy
Birthday
Shay!
With love from
the Washington
Family