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An African-American family in Southern Mississippi in 1895.Credit...Sepia Times/Universal Images Group, via Getty Images This is the story of how a bill to save the vote and preserve a semblance of democracy for millions of Americans died at the hands of an intransigent, reactionary minority in the Senate, which used the filibuster to do its dirty work. In the summer of 1890, the state of Mississippi held its second constitutional convention of the post-Civil War era. The first, in 1868, was an...

U.S. Senator-Elect Warnock (D-GA) Not since upstart Governor Jimmy Carter (D) Georgia won the White House in 1976 has the Peach State played such a critical position in American politics. While the Deep South went from solid conservative blue in the late 1980s to solid conservative red, there have been splotches of “purple” popping up here and there. A lot of it has to do with the southern migration of Northeastern and Midwestern voters for retirement or jobs. Let’s “brunch” on that t...

The Globe and Mail ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/Reuters Election Day in Georgia turned out to be Groundhog Day – a virtual repeat of the November presidential race that was too close to call on election night in a bitterly divided electorate. A repeat performance – once again Georgia provided a huge rebuff to President Donald Trump – with the verdict sending another Democratic shock wave, and two new Democratic senators, to Washington. Two months ago, the close-call election in the state was a vital ...

This is the post-Four Seasons landscaping media ecology. Ugly, fact-free press conferences held under absurd conditions are ostensibly to be taken as something other than what they are. Reductio ad absurdum is an important mathematical idea — if one reduces an equation to say 2+2=5 or that 2+2 does not equal 4, you know it is wrong. Without a mooring in the not-absurd journalism goes entirely off the rails, becoming bad drama or a full-scale farce. Finally, I have a real apple computer, not o...

Back to "hardball." our history shows good and bad people have run for third-party candidates. roosevelt split the republican vote and elebted woodrow wilson. democrat henry wallace ran on the progressive ticket and strong thurman ran on the dixie ticket but truman still won anyway. george wallace ran as an independent splitting the democrats solid south, giving the election to richard nixon. john anderson and liberal pat lucy ran together on a third party but had no real impact on the vote coun...

The reason theyre doing, it the so-called solid south is breaking open. the demographics are changing. and what has happened is these republican state legislators are stacking, packing, bleaching, and diluting the black vote. not to stop blacks from getting elected but to disable the power of the black vote to elect all races. if we fight and change this, what you saw in alabama would not be an anomaly. they are afraid of a true populist vote particularly in the south where we elect 31% of the h...

Democrats in congress, but it went to an all-white delegation. weve not seen this blatant intentionality since jim crow laws and the deconstructionists of the 19th century. the reason theyre doing it is because the southern strategy, the so-called solid south is breaking open. the demographics are changing. and what has happened is these republican state legislators are stacking, packing, bleaching, and diluting the black vote. not to stop blacks from getting elected but to disable the power of ...

Republicans and 9 49 democrats. chuck schumer welcome d him saying he was a great candidate and will be a even better senator. roy moore was an awful candidate and never should have gotten to the senate. make in mistake about it. democrats are energized focused on the middle class and those struggling to get there and things are looking better and better for 2018. whats next, im bring in the experts larry is a batto at uva, director the center of politics at university of virginia. larry, virgin...

Who are not white. >> its been the working strategy that theyve been on. >> think about how long we talked about the solid south, though. you know, back in the old days when i was a kid, it was solid democra democr democratic. then it became solid republican. just a big block from, you know, florida all the way over through texas. the south is changing. >> for the same reason, though. they were segregationists then and they were very conservative. >> yeah, i was there. i do remember. but the sou...

Much. back with the panel. is this just a fluke? just a one-off thing? >> talk about a never-trump. the last time we saw something like this was 1968, when george wallace won five states in the solid south, so was kind of a regional candidate. it would be interesting if he started to play in arizona. now, we havent seen any sense that that will happen, but that would actually be really disruptive on a number of levels if he did that. i think what this points to is what would happen to the republ...