At a time when the red-blue political map looks close-to-obsolete, check out the fascinating snapshot of Southern politics offered up in the Pew Research Center’s latest poll. The study challenges those who still discount the idea of economic populism being a winning issue in the South. But, as Chris Kromm lays out in Southern Exposure’s invaluable blog Facing South–the survey also describes what many have long felt is the core challenge for Southern progressives: “How do we draw on the strengths we have with economic populism”” Kromm asks, “while finding ways to creatively neutralize/ challenge social conservatism… There are no magic bullets.”
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