That said, the current electoral map looks like it did in the 1920s, with one party confined to the solid south and the other dominating the rest of the country. The difference being that the parties have reversed positions. SR
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From: "Shane Taylor" <shane.taylor at verizon.net>
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> That could spell the end of the so-called Southern strategy, the doctrine
that took shape under President Richard M. Nixon in which national elections
were won by co-opting Southern whites on racial issues. And the
Southernization of American politics — which reached its apogee in the 1990s
when many Congressional leaders and President Bill Clinton were from the
South — appears to have ended.
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> “I think that’s absolutely over,” said Thomas Schaller, a political
scientist who argued prophetically that the Democrats could win national
elections without the South.
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> The Republicans, meanwhile, have “become a Southernized party,” said Mr.
Schaller, who teaches at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. “They
have completely marginalized themselves to a mostly regional party,” he
said, pointing out that nearly half of the current Republican House
delegation is now Southern.
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