A note to Harvey Wasserman from North Carolina: You're wrong about the South. For one thing, in many states, white people are not even the majority, never mind white racists. For another thing, Southerners white AND black are deeply populist and traditionally Democratic. They just haven't recently been appealed to on a platform they can identifiy with by Democrats (a platform which would have a lot to do with economic issues and health care and education). No one has won the Presidency without winning the South for a long time. Forget the South is bad advice to Democratic activists. States that elected John Edwards and Max Cleland and Al Gore to Congress can elect a Democrat to the White House. Ya'll just need to get over your rebelphobia.

Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin Cullowhee, NC