asked by a reporter, simply quote huey long as a reminder that there is this sort of interracial pop list element that s part of a deeply southern tradition. $mnujt votersjf that s increasi important in the south. latino e1voters. particularly in texas, it s other the fact is that texas is very much in play. i want to look quickly at this republican strategist whit airs who said on thursday that it s pretty obvious that we can te1 continue to lose latinos 276o t as we did in 2008 and remain competitive as a national party. talking about those parts of the south where latinos are coming in. with the current rhetoric, how are the republicans going to hold the south? i had the pleasure of working for rick perry early on and i watched newt gingrich. the republican parties we lost a really good shot at a
constitutionalism in the south. we were both talking about this that struck us. how much the constitutional, the rhetoric of the constitution, you go to the south, katon was talking about how people would draw the constitutioné@ out of their pocket and start talking to them approximate it. is this a secular bible? you said you can say that. i m not going to say that. that s an interestingi] way think of it. we saw the quote from the clemson university political science professor who is transt conservative in his writings. but he talksok about christian values,xd ethic ande1 this sort anti-central authority, this idea of part of what we don t want is central government. i feel that does seem to cross southern political aesthetics, democratic and republican.e1 does that feel accurate? youçó know, i think there si sense of that. whate1 he missed and what we cat miss in southern politics is the ever present issue of race. either above the surface ore1 jt
i agree with that. i think ate1 the margins, we ca do something structural in order so much of redistrictingr conversation does happen around race. it really does lead me to the question of whether or not as we re thinking particuly$re if we go back to the south and we re talking about the demographic changes, what ought to be sort of normatively the goal? should it bexdñi to get a;
clemson university professor of political science jay david woodard described southerni] politics at one party fápolitic legislative governance, a distinct rhetoric. popularok resistance to central authority. the south. back with me are katon dawson, former chair of the south carolina gop and mark memorial, former new orleansçó mayor and n ji at new york unay& m%qe1ñ professor. before i get to my guests, i wantue1 to talk about my favori grits moment in popular culture since it became a central element of this gop race this week. it s actually this scene from the movie my cousin !f9e where joe pesci is representing his nephew. he wraps up the case with a grits technicality. take a look. do you remember what you had? eggszv and grits. eggs and grits. i like grits too.
president obama s stimulus. the same people who would have taken earmarks, every dimes7 of infrastructure support under president bush or president clinton orxd president reagan.5a ideology, sometimes people use the rhetoric ofe1 ideologye1 to here s the thing. here s the thing. one o south is you do have a high percentage ofu poor people. poor african-americans, poor whites and now poor latinos. think that, to a great nos. extent, southern politicians, particularly more conservative southern politicians have been able to emphasize social issueìc and avoid confronting the deep economic challenges of the south where you do have successful and you do have a middleñãclass. but you have a greatñr deal of poor people, rural and urban, in the south. we re going to come right back and continue to talk about the south and about ohio.