Southern Strategy for Winning National Elections: Buh Bye! don't let the door hit you in the...

So, Political Scientists are uniformly declaring that the Southern Strategy to win elections at the National level is dead. This angling for the supposed all important white, racist, conservative vote is now irrelevant. The election of two men, one of African American descent, who are NOT from the South demonstrated clearly that this old paradigm is disappearing rapidly in our collective rearview mirror. Here's what we're losing (from NYT article today):

Race was a strong subtext in post-election conversations across the socioeconomic spectrum here in Vernon, the small, struggling seat of Lamar County on the Mississippi border.

One white woman said she feared that blacks would now become more “aggressive,” while another volunteered that she was bothered by the idea of a black man “over me” in the White House.

Mr. McCain won 76 percent of the county’s vote, about five percentage points more than Mr. Bush did, because “a lot more people came out, hoping to keep Obama out,” Joey Franks, a construction worker, said in the parking lot of the Shop and Save.

Mr. Franks, who voted for Mr. McCain, said he believed that “over 50 percent voted against Obama for racial reasons,” adding that in his own case race mattered “a little bit. That’s in my mind.”

Many people made it clear that they were deeply apprehensive about Mr. Obama, though some said they were hoping for the best.

“I think any time you have someone elected president of the United States with a Muslim name, whether they are white or black, there are some very unsettling things,” George W. Newman, a director at a local bank and the former owner of a trucking business, said over lunch at Yellow Creek Fish and Steak.

Don Dollar, the administrative assistant at City Hall, said bitterly that anyone not upset with Mr. Obama’s victory should seek religious forgiveness.

“This is a community that’s supposed to be filled with a bunch of Christian folks,” he said. “If they’re not disappointed, they need to be at the altar.”

Finally, these under-educated Confederates can no longer determine the direction of our country and our society. They are the dinosaurs of this era and a meteor has just landed in their backyard. Woo hoo! Here's the link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/us/politics/11south.html?th&emc=th