Drum weighs in:Republicans are the party of the South these days, and sure, the GOP
will regain power eventually. But will they be able to do it if they
remain a party dominated by the culture of Dixie? Demographics suggest
pretty strongly that they cant, which means that eventually the South
will have to come to grips with the fact that they no longer hold the
whip hand in American politics and probably never will again. This
means acknowledging that theyre just another region, one with
influe....

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