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candidates from the region. jimmy carter, peanut farm from her 1976 or bill clinton in the 1990s. for decades after 1964 democrats kept chasing after dixie. but the realignment just wouldn t stop. by 2000 native tennesseen, al gore, lost every state south of the mason dixon line. a few years ago a political signist, tom schaller, wrote a book called whistling past dixie, his argument it was time for democrats to give up in the south and build a winning coalition elsewhere. if you look around the south today, that seems self-evident from presidency to state houses to county courthouses, no region in the country as uniformly republican as the south. we look at what happened in 2008, when democrat, a barack obama broke through, and won three old confederacy states, the first time since lbj in 64 a democrat won virginia. first time since carter in 76 a
author of whistling past dixie, professor of political science at university of baltimore, maryland county and abby rapoport, writer at the prospect. you wrote the book that changed the way democrats thought about the south and a lot of democrats say, that s pretty good advice. when you look at that american prospect series, you look at demographic changes in the south, do you think it s time to rethink a little of what you said and maybe some of the south is much more fertile for democrats? certainly parts of it with the peripheral rim south, north carolina, virginia, texas and certainly states with significant latino growth, will the states that come next. when will they come and how long will it take? if you read my book i say, look, the democrats, if you look at the demographics of the country, will be competitive again in the south. do you want your majority and supreme court appointments and presidential victories and senate now or do you want to
suspending or fire college professors who curse and allowing college students to carry guns on campus. it was vetoed once by the governor january jan brewer. i want to bring in megan mccain. an arizona native. and tom sheller from the university of maryland, baltimore county and wrote a great book called whistling past dixie. which is about the partisan divisions in this country. a chapter, i believe, on arizona. yeah. spent some time on that. megan, let me start with you. i find arizona s politics extremely fascinating for a few reasons. it seems in some ways a vision of what america will look like in 30 years in this respect. you have two populations migrating into the state. old white people and young brown people. and they are both getting there, and the politics seems like a death battle in some ways between those two groups for power and you see this kind of rear guard action by the people