The Starbucks guy actually has a shot in my mind.

I remember in my young (relative) life time when Southerners were still very cautious of the Republican party and many still voted Democrat because they weren't completely convinced how radical the party had become nationally. Those were the Guy Hunt / Fob James days here in Alabama but on a National level people still voted for Clinton because he was from Arkansas and was going to revive the classic Southern Democrat and all that did was galvanize the radical left and its place in American history.