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The Southern Strategy
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Tonight looks as if it will be Karl Rove's crowning achievement, the election that will define his legacy for the GOP: The Republican Party will have transformed itself from the Party of Lincoln into the Party of the Old Confederacy. We will find that John McCain has achieved his best results in the Old Confederacy—to which only a sprinkling of thinly populated states of the Plains and Mountain West will be added (states that share strong demographic similarities with the “Confederate” states). The core of the congressional G.O.P. will be drawn from the Old ...

The Same But Different: Anti-LGBT Ballot Measure Victories
The Moderate Voice — ... Amidst the enthusiastic celebration of change, I was oddly-depressed last night. Early on, it became apparent that Obama would not win my home state of Georgia. Worse: ...

The Same But Different: Anti-LGBT Ballot Measure Rout
The Moderate Voice — ... Amidst the enthusiastic celebration of change, I was oddly depressed last night. Early on in became apparent that Obama would not win my home state of Georgia. Worse: ...

And The GOP/Media Spin Begins
Firedoglake — ... warned him that backing the Civil Rights Act "will not only cost you the South, it will cost you the election." As Johnson said to his young aide Bill Moyers upon signing it, "We have lost the South for a generation." Indeed, to this day the South is the GOP's strongest region. That, however, didn't stop Barack Obama from winning the presidency this year. At long last, playing on old racial fears by way of what Republican strategist Kevin Philips termed "the Southern Strategy" is no longer a guarantee of Republican success at the ballot box. ...

Don’t Consign GOP to Land of Cotton
Pajamas Media — By equating red states with the Confederacy, pundits reveal their own ignorance and hate. [image] Win or lose, some liberal pundits seem constitutionally incapable of civility toward conservatives. Four years ago, the people and states that reelected George W. Bush were branded ...

Too late for stuffin'
Classical Values — Too late for stuffin' Well, I drove across the country from Michigan, and I am now in Barstow, California. (No view from the room today; my camera is in the car.) I don't especially recommend driving 850, mostly mountainous, miles on the third day of a long drive, as my head was spinning and things were still moving when I went to bed last night. Fortunately, today's drive will be the shortest. (A mere 400 miles to destination.) I passed through only one state which had belonged to the Confederacy -- Texas.(Well, there is the complicated situation of Missouri ...