Racism Powered Republican Triumph

[DrScholl]

You can't have your cake and eat it too, Republicans won, but a lot of those wins were racially polarized. In the south, Republican equals white and Democratic equals black, that is just how it is.

[DrScholl]

Politicians are fairly anonymous everywhere, so I would wager that a lot voters did not even know that Scott is black. His anonymity is one reason why he over performed Haley and Graham (they also have more detractors).