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Could a wealthy, white, well-connected southerner really grow up to be president? Haley Barbour can't wait to find out.
Haley Barbour is not well equipped for the age of Obama. Just look at the man's office. The Republican governor of Mississippi keeps a large portrait of the University Greys, the Confederate rifle company that suffered 100 percent casualties at Gettysburg, on a wall not far from a Stars and Bars Confederate flag signed by Jefferson Davis.
The young candidate's inexperience showed, sometimes painfully. Barbour was embarrassed by an aide's nasty remarks about "coons" at campaign rallies. But in reprimanding the aide, he only made things worse. As The New York Times recounted it, Barbour warned the aide that if he "persisted in racist remarks, he would be reincarnated as a watermelon and placed at the mercy of blacks."
As for the OP question, no, at least not this one.
That's good. Northerners moving south increase the chances of Southern states voting for Democrats. (North Carolina is a good example.)
Interesting that you mention North Carolina. Northerners moving south could indeed impact voting patterns; however, North Carolina has long been viewed a swing state in politics. Now, if decidedly red states all of a sudden turn decidedly blue because of northern migration to the south, you'd certainly be onto something.
Could a wealthy, white, well-connected southerner really grow up to be president? Haley Barbour can't wait to find out.
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, Zachery Taylor, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton were all wealthy, well-connected, Southerners who became president.
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