Kos

Daily Kos is counseling the Democrats to abandon the South, which is simply too red, and focus on the Mountain West.  Even Salt Lake City, some say, is increasingly a "bastion for the left."  Who knew?  Excerpt:

Key to the region -- a lack of obsession over mores that we see in the South. While culturally conservative, many of these states are fiercely libertarian, and resent efforts to place morality over economics.

As the Democratic Party continues to purge itself successfully of the gun albatross (the NRA won, let's move on), we can use environmental/conservation issues to wedge the sportsman vote.

The abandonment of the gun issue seems like news, doesn't it?  He doesn't mention the plains or the Dakotas.