ATLANTA (AP) — The “Solid South” was a political fact, benefiting Democrats for generations and then Republicans, with Bible Belt and racial politics ruling the day.

But demographic changes and recent election results reveal a more nuanced landscape now as the two major parties prepare for their national conventions. Republicans will convene Aug. 27 in Florida, well established as a melting-pot battleground state, to nominate Mitt Romney of Massachusetts. Democrats will toast President Barack Obama the following week in North Carolina, the perfect example of a Southern electorate not so easily pigeon-holed.

Obama won both states and Virginia four years ago, propelled by young voters, nonwhites and suburban independents. Virginia, long a two-party state in down-ballot races, had not sided with Democrats on the presidency since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Jimmy Carter in 1976 had been the last Democratic nominee to win North Carolina. Each state is in play again, with Romney needing to reclaim Florida and at least one of the others to reach the White House.

Southern strategists and politicians say results will turn again this year on which party and candidates understand changing demographics and voter priorities.

“The transformation of the South seems to never end,” said Mo Elleithee, a Democratic campaign consultant with deep experience in Virginia and federal elections. “Now it’s beginning to emerge, at least parts of it, as solidly purple.”

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ap-the-once-solid-south-not-all-red-or-all-blue-anymore/

Romney needs to win FL.

/thread

And VA

And will....I believe he'll win all the sates Bush won in '04

It would be nice if we had an R in the senate this go around but the GOP picked a litteral loser as the candidate.



The only thing Georage Allen has going for him is he is not running against the Democrate he lost to in 2006.

I will do my part!



 

The Yankees have screwed Florida half way to Hell.

I voted for Radtke...





 

Diversity isn't a bad thing.

This man speaks the truth!
 

Not the way the left defines it.

The downside is that socialism/marxism has become mainstream.

...as they do with every state they infest.

Hell, if enough Yankees move south maybe some day the South will rise again.

Yup.