Yeah. Something I've been saying for a long time. Forget the South--- east. We can win the presidency without those states and their right-wing politics make us have to be more conservative than we need to be. Even without Florida, Gore could have won with just a few other well-placed locales that aren't in the South. Focus on strengthening our bases and winning in new winnable states that are ours to be picked up. Let the right-wing Southeast sort it out amongst themselves, and let the Republicans be defined by the right-wing ideology they've accepted and grown in the South.