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The reason they're 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 house of representatives, 26 senator, and where we have 171 electoral votes. >> sam, you're shaking ...

Democrats in congress, but it went to an all-white delegation. we've not seen this blatant intentionality since jim crow laws and the deconstructionists of the 19th century. the reason they're 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 the black vote to elect all races. if we fight and change this, what you saw in alabama would not ...

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. what's next, i'm bring in the experts larry is a batto at uva, director the center of politics at university of virginia. larry, virginia was a powerful message a couple weeks back, but this one, alabama has become part of the new so...

Who are not white. >> it's been the working strategy that they've 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 south is changing and there's this fascinating sort of urban versus rural and small town split, that'...

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 haven't 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 republican party if trump does lose and kayleigh and andre and others have been talking about, will there...