And it led to a bloody civil war. John 'F-ing' Kerry has written off the South as being unimportant on his path to the Presidency. Indeed, the Senator from Taxachussets, and former Vietnam war protestor is making the claim that he doesn't need to woo southern voters or even care about issues that are important to southerners, as long as he's got a strong foothold with the northern states.

"Everybody always makes the mistake of looking South," Kerry said, in response to a question about winning the region. "Al Gore proved he could have been president of the United States without winning one Southern state, including his own."

While technically Kerry is correct, had Gore one just one more Northern state, he would have won the election. But it's pretty indicative that Kerry's goal is to make just enough people happy so that he'll be elected, and not what's good for America.