Run is confirmation of slow change since Civil Rights Act
(NEWSER) - Unless the polls are wrong, the winner of today’s election is clear: Lyndon Baines Johnson. “We have lost the South for a generation,” Johnson said when he signed the Civil Rights Act. Well, “for that generation, time’s up,” Richard Cohen writes in the Washington Post. Barack Obama isn’t a transformational figure, he’s “a conformational figure,” representing a seed that’s already blossomed. It was planted by Johnson. More»
