Attorney General Jeff Landry, a rightwing Republican backed by Donald Trump, has won the Louisiana governor’s race, holding off a crowded field of candidates.
The win is a major victory for the Republican party as they reclaim the governor’s mansion for the first time in eight years. Landry will replace current governor John Bel Edwards, who was unable to seek re-election due to consecutive term limits.
Edwards is the only Democratic governor in the south.
Did Andy Bershear stop being a Democrat or did Kentucky stop being in the South?
Had the same thought. We got Roy Cooper here in NC as well
Deep South would be more accurate
Rephrase in an edit.
The north south divide used to run from Texas across to north Caroline’s coast. But the mason-dixon line shifted things.
It is complicated history and the more I read the less I can keep track of enough to make a summary of it.
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It’s still in the South.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/which-states-are-in-the-south/
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Probably referring to the “Mason and Dixon line” that was coined during the Compromise of 1820 that signified the separation between slave and free. The line separates Pennsylvania and Maryland. Kentucky is under that line. Here’s a archives page about it. https://web.archive.org/web/20180717185851/http://www1.udel.edu/johnmack/mason_dixon/
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People believe the reason TN/KY border is flat is because it lines up with the Mason-Dixon line, but people don’t really critically analyse history, so KY often gets called the North even though that state is where the line began shifting northward to the Virginias