Vanity Fair – Lost Cause: The South’s one-crop political culture – and why it won’t change anytime soon
By Todd S. Purdum | POLITICS | March 14, 2012
“…There are many reasons for the Deep South’s emergence as a reliable 21st-century political monoculture (just as it was an agrarian monoculture in centuries past), beginning with the backlash against the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which, as Lyndon Johnson correctly foresaw, delivered the South to the Republican Party. The subsequent creation of congressional districts with high enough concentrations of black voters likely to elect black officials left the remaining districts overwhelmingly white and unlikely to elect anyone but a Republican, so that, over time, Democratic office-holders at the local level switched parties or bit the dust…”
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/purdum/2012/03/santorum-deep-south-lost-democrats
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Bill
Posted on 24-Mar-12 at 2:54 pm | PermalinkGreat article.
I missed it
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