It’s the culmination of a story that I blogged about for many years, but ultimately lost interest in because the GOP is just capitalizing on demographic angst and cultural alienation.

Update: More on this theme here.

Note: How bad is the Democratic brand in the South? Here in Alabama, it is so bad that Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard was reelected in a landslide in spite of recently being indicted on 23 felony ethics charges.