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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders Faces Feisty Democratic Challenger [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)I simply asked if the statement about backing any D over any I was an absolute. I'm relieved that it isn't.
Southern Dems of today are nothing like the Dixiecrats...OTHER than that too many of them base their political identity on keeping the party that nominated them for office and worked like hell to elect them from more than a handful of legislative victories where the legislation that ends up getting passed isn't watered-down beyond recognition, and by indulging the no-longer-justifiable notion that the rest of the country is fixated on sticking it to the South.
I don't believe that we can build a long-term recovery in the South or in the Mountain West by assuming those regions will always be hostile towards a progressive message. That message may have to be expressed in a way a Southern audience can more directly connect with, but at some point it still needs to be about the need for those regions(especially the South, by which I mean white voters in the South)to admit that they aren't a victimized region, that they shouldn't automatically see anything somebody in the North-or somebody African-American-as a threat to their entire regional sense of self.