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To: unclewest who wrote (15691)	11/9/2003 4:16:30 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 794389

The "Wall Street Journal gives the real reasons the South won't vote for the Dems. ________________________________ ........The larger issue here is that Democrats will never carry the Southern states again until they realize why they've lost them. Their conceit--fed by the Yankee media--is that it's all about race. National Democrats claim to believe they lose in the South because white men especially won't vote for civil rights liberals. They chalk it all up to their own moral superiority. But if this was once true for a while during the 1960s, it stopped being true a long time ago. The South has made enormous civil-rights progress, to the point that recent Census data show there is a great migration of black Americans now taking place from the North back to the South. And far from playing the race card, most Republican candidates nowadays strive to avoid making race an issue, if only because they don't want to boost largely Democratic black turnout. As the new Pew Research poll on voter attitudes reveals, the real Democratic problem in the South is cultural. Southerners simply don't believe that national Democrats share their values. The South is more churchgoing, while Democrats are more secular. The South is more hawkish on foreign policy, according to the Pew data, while the East and West Coast states are the most dovish. Southern states are also the most conservative on such social questions as family and marriage, homosexuality, and ideas about good and evil. And Southerners as a whole are far more skeptical than national Democrats about the uses of government--an issue that tends to be politically defined by taxes. This week's events will only widen this cultural and political chasm. Dr. Dean at least admitted the problem. But his party then beat him into submission--and made it even less likely that Democrats will carry a single Southern state next year. opinionjournal.com