and voter suppression, mislabeled as voter ID concerns, but the common element is based on racial animosity that now includes a greater emphasis on demonizing Hispanics and Muslims.

And someone is voting for these racists.

And consider the true red states. Who's voting there?

since the backwards early 60s. He's got to hope every single rural person in the south votes for him and that's not going to happen. Many of them have been voting to piss off New Yorkers for so long that they'll never vote for one, no matter what. A few are Democrats. Most will stay home. The southern strategy is largely going to be a flop this year, I think.

That doesn't mean it's completely dead. Should the GOP start running southern candidates, they might be able to revive it--if they can hang together as a party.

What's destroying them now isn't the southern bigots, they could have absorbed them just fine. It's the religious nutters who have infected the whole party with the deadly spirit of "no compromise, not ever" on every single issue. Goldwater warned them about that and in their greed for voting blocs, they refused to listen.

Now that party is seriously in jeopardy. If Drumpf is humiliated, they're done.

For sure, they're not going away anytime soon. I don't know if there are enough of them, combined with the others I mentioned, to keep the "Southern Strategy" alive.

After all, that "Strategy" doesn't really apply to just the South. Haters, bigots, ignorant people, etc., live everywhere. And the GOP has spent decades courting them.

What I've never been able to understand is how people can vote against their own well being, election after election, and never grasp that they're screwing themselves.

Their eyes are raised to the clouds, where the preachers tell them heaven is.

They have no clue how insubstantial those clouds really are.

My county is about 30% non white. My district voted for Obama twice. There is an ever dwindling core of white racists holding on and they aren't going quietly but the country is turning brown even outside cities.

inevitable as climate change.

Any person who regards himself/herself as "superior" in some way because of their race needs to adapt, or drown in their own misery.

What's so sad is that it's so unnecessary. Yet it won't go away as long as politicians keep beating the drums of bigotry and hatred in order to cling to their diminshing power.

If they can still cling to the house & or Senate they are wedded to this strategy until the old racists die off. The young are increasingly becoming more & more liberal every generation. We are witnessing the twilight of the Republican party.

Is also a drawing a more educated citizenry from all over. The GOP strongholds ar slowly crumbling.