[Clemenza]

but in the first half of the last century many parts of the South were beginning to resemble a Latin American country, a few rich and a lot of poor. It became federal policy to prevent and reverse that.

Which is my I always laugh when folks say that the south was always "conservative." Southern and midwestern "populists" brought us the Socialist monstrosity known as the income tax.

[MARTIAL MONK]

Exactly. The South voted for Roosevelt by as much as 98.5% (South Carolina). That's more than political, that's cultural. Almost the entire South will be back Democratic in the next quarter century.

When I was working on the Reagan campaign (I was a major strategist [Them: "Boy were need some more chairs in here." Me: "Yessir".]) the south were the anti-Reaganites. There was no region where Reagan did worse than in the South.