The Real South & The 2008 Presidential Election

From The Daily Kos:

On the day before Election Day — that final moment when candidates decide where they want to make their last case to the voters they want to win the most  – Barack Obama chose to visit three big battleground states: Florida, North Carolina and Virginia.

Since 1968, these Southern states had voted Democratic for president only six times between them. And president-elect Obama was about to ask voters in these states — all members of the old Confederacy — to vote the first African-American ever into the White House.

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