As we've noted, the major media's analysis about what the 2008 elections mean for the South has been predictable -- and predictably thin -- so far. Three Southern states helping the nation's first African-American presidential candidate to victory; a dramatic upwelling of voters in the Black Belt; a massive shift of young white Southerners into the Democratic column -- all must be cast aside to preserve the myths of a "sold south"
Election 2008: A closer look at the Southern white vote
November 18, 2008
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Chris Kromm
Chris Kromm is executive director of the Institute for Southern Studies and publisher of the Institute's online magazine, Facing South.