“The Democrats have had success in their multiyear campaign to identify the GOP as largely a Southern regional party, and a bigoted one at that. You may not like it, but pretending that the problem doesn’t exist is foolish.”
The author does not point out that the Democrats, on their own, are complete incapable of building such a perception. It requires the media to perpetrate such a fraud, which is something they are more than willing to do.
“This is due to one principal factor; his Southern roots”
What a bigoted and moronic thing to say but of course we are schizophrenic and very hypocritical in this country on issues of race and culture anyway.