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Don't write off the South, Democrats urged.
Byline: Gromer Jeffers Jr.
CHARLESTON, S.C. _ Jim Hodges was a rarity in Republican-dominated South Carolina _ a Democratic governor.
And despite his party's hard times in the South, particularly in recent presidential politics, Hodges remains resolute that the road to the White House runs through Dixie.
"Part of the reason we've gotten in the position we're in is that we've written off the South," said Hodges, who led the state from 1999 to 2003. "I'm offended by remarks that we should ignore the South."
Democrats who think their party can win the White House without the traditional South should study their history, analysts and Southern Democrats say. No modern Democrat has won the White House without winning at least four of the 11 states of the old Confederacy. And except John F. Kennedy, who captured the South in 1960, Southerners have been the only Democrats in the Oval Office since Harry Truman.
In 2000, though, Al Gore almost won the presidency without carrying a single Southern ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Don't write off the South, Democrats urged.