by Scott Winship

Commenter "David" notes an error that I made in my response to Tom Schaller's roundtable discussion piece from a couple of months back. I claimed that just 2 of 28 Democratic governors led southern states, which was badly wrong. I'll let David speak for himself:

I'm unclear what states you count as "southern," but going with the Old Confederacy, I count *five* Democratic governors, in VA, NC, LA, AR and TN. That doesn't leave you with a majority of governorships outside the South, at least using ordinary math.

For the record, I apparently misread the election map I examined and counted as in the Dem column only the two states where Dem governors were elected in November (rather than adding the sitting governors in the other Southern states). I then subtracted 2 from 28 to get a non-Southern majority of 26. Dumb, dumb mistake -- an example of writing up something far too quickly.

David makes some other criticisms in his post that I take issue with, which you can consider for yourself at the link above.