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It's telling that, three weeks before the presidential election, John McCain spent Monday campaigning in Virginia and North Carolina, Republican states that his campaign must be worried about. Is this the election where red starts turning blue? For more than a generation, Republican dominance in the South has remained largely uncontested. Our guest, Bob Moser, Nation contributor and author of Blue Dixie: Awakening the South’s Democratic Majority, argues that the Democratic Party has a historic opportunity in the 2008 U.S. elections to build a new generation-long, nationwide majority by tapping into changing demographics below the Mason-Dixon line. For a primer on how the Obama candidacy could be changing the American political map, effecting down-ballot voting and the makeup of the next Congress, tune in after the news from NPR.

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