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COVER STORY

For GOP, A Southern Exposure

Republican strength in the South has both compensated for and masked the extent of the party's decline elsewhere.

by Ronald Brownstein
Saturday, May 23, 2009


By several key measures, the Republican Party is now weaker outside the South than at any time since the Depression; in some ways, it is weaker than ever before. The party's increasing identification with Southern conservatism may be accelerating its decline elsewhere.


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