NPR - "A Handful of Southern Democrats" Joined Republicans to Block Controversial Civil Rights Appointee

From Instapundit via Ace of Spades HQ:

Feast your eyes on all this Southern-ness.

Here are the folks NPR considers “Southern Democrats.”

Chris Coons (Del.)

Bob Casey (Pa.),

Mark Pryor (Ark.),

Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.),

Joe Manchin (W.V.),

Joe Donnolly (Ind.)

John Walsh (Mont.)

And of course Harry Reid (Nev.) who did it for procedural grounds.

Not exactly Sons of the Confederacy.

It's couldn't be that some of these "Southern Democrats voted to save their own skins, could it?