Well I'm not so certain the Bubba Factor plays into anyones politics in the South. Someone who can do those blue clicky things ought to gaze through a few of the Op-Eds from this week's Washington Post. My read was one that said, "No Dem, No How in the South", another said, "Some Dems but No Dean, No How", another said, "No Dems in the South, but Some Dems in the South East" (New Mexico, Arizona, etc). I suspect that the Democrats chances to take the South (and therefore the White House) depends on the candidate they pick. Kinda like it's always been...

Remember the Souths economy has just passed California as the third largest in the world... or didn't you get that email? Bubba may or may not have a rebel flag on his pick-up (depending on which Dean you talk to), but it's a new pick-up, and he's got a steady job, and while the African-Americans still lag behind, they're ahead of blacks in any other part of the Nation.

And a bit of thread creap... The History Channels series on JFK diminishes the man to a whisper, while the LBJ tapes being played on CNN Radio on Sundays, has raised Johnson in my estimation, quite a bit. You hear Johnson, who was desparately trying to avoid a wider war in Indo-China, being sucked in with every call. When you hear a series of calls with Sen Russell of Georgia, that deal with his distrust of the military in the Tonkin Gulf incident, the problems with the JFK assassination investigation, the Dems flaying him for the Civil Rights Bill, and the predestined failure of his Great Society, you get the feeling the Presidency did kill him; it was just too much.

Oh well, back to Bubba...