Professor Bainbridge...on law, politics, religion, culture & food

Having no one from the South is a benefit to the GOP.  The Democrats have not won without a southerner on the ticket since FDR.

Correction:  Truman won with Alben Barkley of Kentucky as his VP.  KY was not part of the Confederacy although it was a slave state.  Whether it is a Southern state is open to debate.

In 1972 neither party had anyone from the South on the ticket.  Nixon was from California, Agnew from Maryland, McGovern from South Dakota, and Shriver also from Maryland.

It is also, I suspect, the first time that the 49th and 50th States have residents on the ballot.

Mike, Kentucky is a southern state.  Most restaurants there serve grits.  QED.

Not Southern but seems the Rebel in some admirable ways - like fighting political corruption in her own party. So far I really like her - not enough to vote (R) for Prez - but we could sure someone following her example to clean house here in Illinois - especially if the next Prez is a favorite son.

Oh, come on, Palin is sort of an honorary Southerner, isn’t she?  I was surprised to find out that Alaskan accents sound like the upper Midwest, so she sounds more like me than like Jimmah Carter.  But when those good ole boys see the photos of her with her trophy elks and her huntin’ rifle, they’ll fall head over heels in luv

I have to disagree with Mr Bartlett about 1972. For one thing, Agnew and Shriver were from a slave state (Maryland) that stayed in the Union primarily for economic reasons; perhaps there was a little fear of all the US Army units there, too. For another, Nixon was a proud member of the first graduating class at Duke… and an architect of the Southern Strategy.

And throw Missouri (Eagleton) in there somewhere, too; after four years of college there in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including quite a bit of time out on the road between soccer matches, it sure seemed more “southern” than “midwestern” outside of KC and St. Louis.

Stephen specifically said “Confederate” state, which Maryland was not.  And it being a slave state is hardly relevant; every pre-war state had slaves at one time.  I seriously doubt you will find a genuine Southerner anywhere that views Maryland as a Southern state in any sense of the term.