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Whatever the answers are, the results on saturday, the result this weekend is that mary landrieu got skunked. she lost her senate seat by 12 points. the state that gave her three terms in a row picked a republican this time instead. bill cassidy will now become the first republican to hold that louisiana senate seat in 132 years. the old solid south democratic version is gone. the new solid south is totally, solidly republican. and in louisiana this weekend it was all over, but the shouts of victory and just the briefest pause for the reflection on defeat. >> if you want to spend your life in ...

Control. the governors, the u.s. senators, statehouses. the american south in 1930. give me 1940. right. blur. still blue. completely blue. the entire thing from texas to north carolina. 1950, please. thank you very much. the whole thing again. every governorship, statehouse. democrats had a lock on the south. here we have 1960. blue. you can have any color you want as long as it's blue. democrats controlled the south. the solid south. solidly. then 1964 when president johnson signed the civil rights act even though he knew at the time it would cost his democratic party their hold on the old c...

Tonight on "all in america: behind the color line" we take a look at the solid south. for generations it was a truism about american politics the democratic party had the lock on the south. now we think of the south as the opposite, the modern geographical base of the tea party led gop. it's a historical shift that's made the south the reddest part of the country. where republicans rule and can count on dozens of electoral votes in election after election. the state of georgia is poised for a possible political transformation. the tipping point may be hiding in plain sight. >> to run billion d...

Reversal of post-reconstruction when -- democrats won the so-called solid south by similar margins." that kind of regional racial polarization is not, i would say, liberals playing the race card. it's evidence of american politics growing racially polarized. professor of political science at fordham university. sam cedar host of majority report. and adam george editorial writer for the "new york post." robert, conservatives do get touchy when you try to say -- or when as the liberals say i suspect there's something going on in the conceptual structure of this certain kind of anti-government, i...

And more importantly the electorate, those who are extremists see their world falling apart. holes are beginning to come in the so-called solid south. the walls that were put up are opening up. we've built powerful coalition of whites and blacks working together and that scares literally the political life of extremism. they know they cannot win when you see an expanded electorate and people working together. and so you take that, you take the deep influence of money like the money of art polk and it's a threat to extremism and that is why we see this almost extremism on steroids, if you will....