JEROME AGAINST HIMSELF. My argument for building a non-southern majority continues to confuse and befuddle some otherwise smart people. Perhaps frustrated by the fact that MyDD�s Chris Bowers pronounced me �utterly vindicated� by the 2006 election results, Jerome Armstrong now argues that Democrats should not single out and criticize �southern conservatives� because when Republicans make hay -- and they have made plenty of hay over the last three decades -- by criticizing �northeastern liberals,� supposedly everyone knows that the GOP adds the �liberal� clarifier just for political cover.