Great post, DBB. I will limit myself to two thoughts. First, there is a literature on this geographic pattern, and I would recommend Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer as the jumping off point. Second, one should note that, although the geographic divide remains the same, the parties themselves have traded places and survived the process. Understanding this switch is to me, at least, one of the most important stories in the past 100+ years of American politics
by Common Sense on November 5, 2004 at 10:02 PM