SPEAKING OF YANKEES...

Ah, good ol' Howard Dean knows how to reel-in those Southerners:

Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean told a Tallahassee audience today that southerners have to quit basing their votes on "race, guns, God and gays."...

Dean said he hopes to reassemble a coalition of conservative
southern voters like President Franklin Roosevelt had in the "solid
South" 70 years ago. Although his opposition to the war in Iraq and his criticism of the Bush tax cuts do not score well in polls in the South, Dean said he hopes working families will support his call for improving education and health care.

Well, with statements like that Dean won't be able to beat the "conservative southern voters" off with a stick. (Of course, no Yankee liberal ever considers "race, guns, God and gays" when he/she/it casts a vote. Never ever.)