The last time Democrats swept Texas was 1961. When Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, he said the South would be lost for generations--about three, as it turns out: what it has taken to *begin* to beat back Nixon's racist Southern strategy. Much still to do.
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@jeffjarvis There is a certain pleasing dramatic irony in the possibility that the GOP's attempts to protect itself from a looming demographic crisis ended up accelerating it instead.
Rachel Maddow is delivering a stirring litany of last night's Democratic victory. Did it take the bald racism of Trumpism to cauterize the nation's self-inflicted racist scars, to begin a route to justice? Here is what she presented in Georgia: *Black Women* sweeping state offices.