Reply #39: I Think Bombtrack's Argument

[DemocratSinceBirth]

is to be taken seriously.

I'd bet my last $1.00 that if you polled Political Science and History professors the lion's share would agree with him.

History and sixty years of social science research are on his side. The last Democrat to win the presidency who wasn't from the South was John F Kennedy.

That's a long time ago....


And the last Norhern Democrat to win the presidency was Franklin Roosevelt...

That was a very long time ago....

Let's see how non-southern candidates have done since 1960*

Hubert Humphrey - lost every southern state except Texas.

George McGovern-lost forty nine states

Walter Mondale-lost forty nine states

Michael Dukakis lost forty states and every state of the Old South except West Virginia.

As Sanataya said " those who do not learn their lessons from history are doomed to repeat it."

I'll go as far to say that having a southerner or midwesterner at the top of the ticket is a necessary but not sufficient condition for success.