Talk:The South

It gets tricky defining "The South" as far as a geographic region in the United States. The ones listed in the article are what I would consider to be Civil War Era south. However, I've found this map as well on the census website that has a considerably larger scope here. --Colest 15:48, 11 May 2007 (EDT)

Solid South

Both of the Bushs carried a solid South in 1988, 2000, and 2004. Clinton won in 1992 & 1996 by winning some southern states, but not all of them. <http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/elections/maps/>

Any reason that you removed the category Rob? --Colest 12:25, 17 May 2007 (EDT)

I removed Missouri and Kentucky because they were not part of the Confedracy.--Cobb 12:35, 17 May 2007 (EDT)

I made a change regarding the 1968 election. The Democrats carried Texas.--McIntyre 13:28, 19 May 2007 (EDT)

Kerry material

Democratic Senator John Kerry, the party's 2004 Presidential nominee, mocked Southerners and their tradition of military service during the 2006 Midterm elections saying,

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You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.

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The incident is widely believed to have killed any hope for Kerry to run as a viable Presidential candidate in 2008, or ever again.

I don't see what this has to do with the South. According to the reference, the speech was made in California, and the reference does not, as far as I can see, even mention the South. If you assume that he was mocking military volunteers (my perception is that he was attempting to mock Bush for getting the U. S. stuck in Iraq, and phrased it so clumsily and gracelessly that it was readily subject to misinterpretation... but never mind), well, military volunteers are not limited to the South. Dpbsmith 14:48, 18 May 2007 (EDT)