Should the Democrats' strategy be
Go Southwest and Leave the South Behind...?
From this WaPo opinion piece -- has some interesting stats to argue the point:
Solid Republican victories in the Kentucky and Mississippi governors' races, coupled with Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean's clumsy overture to Confederate flag-waving Southerners, have raised anew the question of whether the Democrats can compete in the South.
They can't.
And precisely because they can't, they should stop trying.