I can’t begin to tell you how tired I am of the South’s victim complex. Five of our last seven presidents have been from the South and the other two have been from the Southwest — and the reason, as near as I can tell, is that most Southerners just flatly refuse to vote for anyone who comes from north of the Mason-Dixon Line. And yet, somehow, it’s the rest of us who are supposedly intolerant of Southern culture. Feh. ~Kevin Drum

Of course, Northerners and Northeasterners are intolerant of Southern culture and have no problem saying so all the time.  Southerners used to vote for Northern Democratic nominees as recently as 1960, back when the Democratic Party actually saw fit to represent the interests of Southern Democrats.  It is amusing to hear this complaint from Northeasterners, who continue to dominate the country culturally, politically and economically far out of all proportion to their numbers.  They have the bulk of the financial and political establishment, and together with their kindred spirits in California they run most of the media and entertainment empires in this country, and they feel put upon by a few Southern Presidents?  Cry me a river.  The South and the Sun Belt are where a huge percentage of Americans resides, and they have moved there because they have grown tired of the way things are done in the North.  Besides, before LBJ the last  President who originally hailed from part of the Old Confederacy was Wilson (inasmuch as he was born in Virginia); before Wilson, you have to go back to Andrew Johnson, and the last Southern President before him was Polk.  The majority of U.S. Presidents has been one kind of Yankee or another, so stop the complaining already.

Also, since when is California part of the Southwest?  We Southwesterners don’t claim it.  It’s a Pacific state, and very un-Southwestern.  This is clear enough, since the vast majority of Californians lives west of the Mojave and the San Joaquin Valley.  The only connection we Southwesterners have with them is that lots of Californians keep coming to our states to get away from, well, everything that makes California what it is.