Democrats won't win the South, period. MAYBE Bredesen picks off TN, but I doubt it, and Easley sure as hell doesn't pull NC as the VP nominee. The GOP would win OK if they ran David Duke, so that's just a silly claim by ian. And Arkansas and Louisiana are solid GOP, probably as is Missouri, unless it's a blowout, and the Dems will hold California & Vermont.
That's all assuming a reasonably close race, in a massacre of course it doesn't matter.
I agree. The Democrats should give up on the South and focus on the Midwest and Southwest.