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The Democrats are now disassembling like a Brad Childress crazy train. They were given a choice back leading into 2008 with two clearly outlined paths. The one from Thomas F. Schaller in his book Whistling Past Dixie: How Democrats Can Win Without the South. The other by Democratic strategists Steve Jardin and Dave “Mudcat” Saunders in their book Foxes in the Henhouse: How the Republicans Stole the South and the Heartland and What the Democrats Must Do to Run ’em Out. Quite obviously they followed the Schaller path. Jardin and Saunders warned that ignoring the South and the heartland was immoral and would have catastrophic consequences for the Democratic Party. It has done worse than that. Today, Democratic analyst and commentator Pat Caddell calls the situation in the heartland “prerevolutionary.”

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