The Road to the White House Runs Through the South

Los Angeles Times: “The midterm outcome makes clear that the nation’s political battleground has shifted: The road to the White House in 2024 will run through the South and Southwest. The big industrial states bordering the Great Lakes, which dominated the last several election cycles, remain important, but no longer as exclusively.”

The current electoral map shows 7 toss up states — four in the South and just three in the Midwest.