Being from the south, I can tell you the title to this article hit the nail on the head...I actually said this Tuesday...
I grew up in Gene Taylor’s district and I can tell you...all my friends and family are still there....and I can attest to this...MY MOM IS A PRIME EXAMPLE....She finally in the last year shed her “Southern Democrat” side and now claims to be “Conservative”.... we shall see....
Yup. I'm sure the EPA (The Employment Prevention Agency masquerading as the Environmental Protection Agency) will try to step in with new regulations...they'll claim the White Democrat is too close to extinction...and they'll need "special regulatory protections enacted"...
I spent some time in Gene Taylor’s district (at Keesler AFB) during my military career. Taylor was, for many years, the most conservative Democrat in the House. Unfortunately, he thought his own popularity could trump party affiliation. Mr. Taylor was wrong, and that’s why he’s now a former Congressman.
I’m not an insider by any means, but I know a few folks in the GOP establishment in Mississippi. Republicans approached Taylor on multiple occasions about switching parties, with the promise that he wouldn’t lose his seniority for committee assignments, etc. Taylor always rejected the overtures, believing he could keep getting re-elected in his district.
If the Congressman had followed the example of Senator Richard Shelby in neighboring Alabama, he could have made the switch easily, and would have won re-election as a Republican with little effort.
Someone ought to change the name of the “Blue Dogs” to the “Dead Dogs.” And that raises another question: how many of the surviving Blue Dogs will try to change parties in the weeks ahead?