The Republican Party dominates the South and has for quite a while. But conversely, the South more than ever now dominates the Republican Party. In fact, the issues that make the GOP the majority party in the South make it the minority party in most of the rest of the country.
The party will have a hard time breaking out of that trap, as an AP story suggests:
>> WASHINGTON (AP) — Tuesday’s elections leave little doubt that the Republicans’ Nixon-era strategy to win over white Southerners has been a resounding success. But have they lost the rest of the country along the way?
Jay Bookman, AJC
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