The South was broken because conservatives broke, often over idiotic reasons like not wanting to lose black recruits to college football. However, Southern Republicans (a phrase Lincoln would have hated) are moving to aggressively redistrict in light of the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act. They are pushing common-sense solutions to fight urban blight, crime, and homelessness and providing political opportunities for those who want to run for office. There is no real liberal elite, and that means there is room for Americans patriots to seize the center ground with a populist agenda.
