Is the Southern Strategy Dead?

American Prospect by Harold Meyerson | Oct. 27, 2008 (News Analysis)

The jobs they were coming to were high-skill, high-tech and high-pay. North Carolina had an aggressive industrial policy, drawing pharmaceutical, semiconductor, and financial companies from around the nation. The state population grew by 51 percent between 1980 and 2006. And the new professionals had no affinity for the low-road politics of Helms. By themselves, they didn't constitute a critical mass for a new, more progressive politics. But with the Obama ... Full Story »

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Topics: Presidential Election 2008, Republican Party, Democratic Party, U.S. Congress
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 by Chris Finnie - Oct. 27, 2008

Meyerson has done his homework to produce an in-depth look at the demographic changes that are transforming the southern electorate in two states.

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