Democrats have been worried about the African-American vote in Louisiana for months. But what really doomed Sen. Mary Landrieu’s reelection bid was the near-monolithic white vote against her. Landrieu’s loss Saturday to Republican Sen.-elect Bill Cassidy followed a November all-party primary in which the incumbent got a lower share of […] Read more »
Demise of the Southern Democrat Is Now Nearly Complete
… If Mary Landrieu, a Democratic senator from Louisiana, loses re-election in Saturday’s runoff election, as expected, the Republicans will have vanquished the last vestige of Democratic strength in the once solidly Democratic Deep South. … The dramatic decline of the Southern Democrats represents the culmination of a half-century of […] Read more »
The Solid South Will Rise Again
Democrats have abandoned Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, who is in a tough runoff election. … Maybe Democrats are simply giving up on Landrieu. Or maybe it’s something bigger: They’re giving up on the South, at least in the short term. This region has become so solidly Republican, particularly since […] Read more »
Why the South is No Longer Democratic
Kevin Baker makes some odd claims in his Sunday New York Times piece assessing the Democratic Party. His title claim, that demography will not save the Democrats, is certainly a fair one, but after that, he ventures into some weird territory. CONT. Seth Masket (U. of Denver), The Mischiefs of […] Read more »
Delusions of the Democrats
… For years now, it’s been an article of faith among Democrats that the future belongs to them, thanks to the country’s changing demographic mix. The rising percentage of voters who are women, Americans of color and especially Latinos were always about to turn the country deep “blue.” I never […] Read more »
The Democrats’ Southern Problem Reaches a New Depth
… The inability of Southern Democrats to run well ahead of a deeply unpopular Mr. Obama raises questions about how an increasingly urban and culturally liberal national Democratic Party can compete in the staunchly conservative South. It raises serious doubts about whether a future Democratic presidential candidate, like Hillary Clinton, […] Read more »