>Actually, judging from the record, Kevin Phillips' expectations
>weren't totally unrealistic. Phillips' 1969 "The Emerging
>Republican Majority" was, as I recall, as much a catalyst of the
>GOP's wildly successful Sunbelt Strategy as it was an analysis of
>the phenomenon. I would credit Phillips with playing a large role
>indeed in creating the GOP-centric world we now inhabit.
Or as Thomas Byrne Edsall (no fan of KP, and vice versa) put it in his review of an earlier Phillips book, he's like an architect who, upon seeing the house he designed actually built, decides he doesn't like it.
Doug