Published: July 18, 2008 08:25 pm         

Dean cancels Hattiesburg stop

HATTIESBURG — Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean’s voter registration tour has canceled a stop in Hattiesburg.

A DNC spokesman says a scheduling conflict will prevent Dean from visiting Hattiesburg, though he still intends to make scheduled stops Friday in New Orleans and Jackson.

Dean is to appear at Tougaloo College Friday night in Jackson.

Dean told The Associated Press on Thursday that the Democratic Party is reaching out to young voters to win more support for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. When asked about racial divides in the South, Dean responded: “Certainly that’s the past, but I don’t think that’s the future.”