How Democrats lost the South

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A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat

By Sen. Zell Miller

Sen. Zell Miller, Georgia Democrat, chastises his party for chronic failures of leadership in a new book, "A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat" (Stroud & Hall, Atlanta). Mr. Miller, governor of Georgia from 1991 to 1999, won a special election for the Senate seat after the death of Paul Coverdell, a Republican, in 2000.

First of three parts:

Once upon a time, the most successful Democratic leader of them all, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, looked south and said, "I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished."

Today our national Democratic leaders look south and say, "I see one-third of a nation and it can go to hell."