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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/04/AR2006090400701.html

By E. J. Dionne | Tuesday, September 5, 2006 | The Washington Post

In this refreshing and upbeat analysis, EJ Dionne reviews the re-alignment of the South as predominantly Republican, with a wave of conversion under Newt Gingrich in 1994, and then turns his attentionto the Northern states carried by the very first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, in 1860. In these states there are a number of seats within the grasp of Democratic congressional candidates – a large enough number to potentially make Democrats the majority party in both houses of Congress. His prediction: “The North Shall Rise Again”…BS