Democrats Won’t Lose a Single Statewide Race in Louisiana

Louisiana Democrats Joins Mississippi Democrats on Road to Oblivion

Earlier The Dismal Political Economist commented on the increasingly likely prospect that the Democratic Party would cease to be a national party and be relegated to regional status.  That particular comment was prompted by the news that in Mississippi Democrats would not be fielding candidates for state wide office other than that of Governor.

Now the news in Louisiana shows that the Democrats in that state can do even better.  In Louisiana the filing deadline passed and here is the headline story



The Democratic State Party Convention in Louisiana



 

 

Louisiana Democrats field no major candidates for statewide office

That’s right, none, nobody, not a single statewide candidate.  Yep, you can't lose a race if you don't field a candidate.   Here is reality for Democrats in the South

“In its broadest strokes, though, what has happened in Louisiana is what has happened across the South and especially the Deep South. Emory University's Merle Black, a leading scholar of Southern politics, notes that Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La, the only remaining statewide-elected Democrat in Louisiana, is also the last Democrat in the Senate from a Deep South state, which now sends but a single white Democrat -- Rep. John Barrow of Georgia -- to the House.

The cause, Black said, is Democrats' loss first of white conservatives and now, with a big assist from President Obama, white moderates.

"There are not that many white liberals in the South," Black said. The result is "the number of whites who identify as Democrats in the Deep South is now in the 16 to 17 percent range."



Not Needed To Figure Out the Future
of the Democratic Pary in the South



The implications for the national Democratic Party, well it’s not brain surgery to figure that out.  Here’s a clue

"The only choice the Democrats have now is deciding who is the least objectionable Republican,"