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Politics

Whistling Past Dixie

By Matthew Yglesias
December 24, 2007

In news sure to bring a smile to Tom Schaller's face, it seems that of the DCCC's top forty targeted congressional districts only four are in the South and all four of them are in Florida. Basically, the view is that the Democratic Party has a lot of growth potential in the Midwest and the Southwest, but that nothing's doing in Dixie.