In any close election, African-American turnout determines which candidate prevails. The same is true across the South, where the black population has increased 18 percent between 2000 and 2010 (compared to white growth of four percent). Those numbers threaten a Republican hegemony that began when political strategist Kevin Phillips added Richard Nixon’s 43.89 percent to George Wallace’s 13.5 percent of the popular vote in 1968 to devise a Southern Strategy that used what Phillips called the Negro Problem to create a perennial Republican majority in the states of the former Confederacy. That majority is slipping away and each successive statewide race becomes more of a challenge because, as South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham observed in 2012, We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term. - Lou Dubose
Posted on: Thu, 04 Sep 2014 05:56:05 +0000
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