The Morning After

The biggest loser in yesterday's landslide was not Donald Trump. It was another Boomer, Newt Gingrich, who managed to redraw the political map in ways that have kept the Republican Party in or near power for the last five decades. While the Democratic base eroded, with the Northeast losing relative population and the Midwest turning purple to red, the Republicans secured hegemony in the rapidly growing Sunbelt, with the exception of California. They have evidently overplayed their hand. In one extraordinary night, some of the most solidly Republican states have gone purple, and the largest of them all, Texas, looks like it might have gone blue. And the Republicans have lost Senate seats in at least one and maybe two of the most historically reactionary and racist states in the union, South Carolina and Mississippi. I never expected to see that in my lifetime and I feel like a great weight has been lifted off me. The Civil War, whose origins I am now studying in detail, is finally…

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