Liberals reveal their sour grape attitude toward the South
Washington Examiner:
Sen. Mary Landrieu's crushing defeat in Saturday's Louisiana runoff has put the Democratic Party out of its misery across the American South.The red state model of low taxes and low regulation along with spending restraint has led to greater prosperity and job opportunities. The failed blue state model where liberalism still thrives leads to income inequality and higher unemployment.
Her unceremonious ouster ends the process of southern realignment that occurred mostly this century, not last. In 2004, Pelican State Democrats held six of seven statewide constitutional offices (including the governorship), both houses of the state legislature, and both U.S. Senate seats. Today, they have nothing.
The result has white liberal writers hopping mad that there are parts of America where their quest to impose their social values has failed.
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... Democrats regained their House majority in 2006 by moving to the center, making themselves more palatable, and protecting the many southern incumbents they then had. They lost nearly everything there in 2010 after moving leftward and passing Obamacare. And in 2014, voters finished the job
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