Null Hypothesis

"But the key thing is that the Republican Party has now rejected its Southern Strategy and is embracing Calhounism instead. The high period of the Republican Party’s most explicit racial appeals was also the time when it had the least use for Calhounian methods of minority rule. The Southern Strategy, as a political method, was not based on Calhounism. It was closer to the opposite of Calhounism.

"Why? Because Republicans were winning."

Jonathan Chait at New York reacts to Sam Tenenhaus's article in The New Republic about the influence of John C. Calhoun on today's Republican Party.