Quote of the Day: Andrew Sullivan on GOP-Confederacy Parallels

The bulwark of today's Republican Party is the states that comprised the Confederate States of America 150 years ago.   And sadly, the racism of the GOP is little different that the pro-slavery states of the Confederacy.  Here's a part of Andrew Sullivan's reflection on the parallels between the Confederacy and today's GOP:

[I]f Virginia and Florida and North Carolina flip back to the GOP from Obama this November, as now looks likely, Romney will have won every state in the Confederacy.

I think America is currently in a Cold Civil War. The parties, of course, have switched sides since the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The party of the Union and Lincoln is now the Democratic party. The party of the Confederacy is now the GOP. And racial polarization is at record levels, with whites entirely responsible for reversing Obama's 2008 inroads into the old Confederacy in three Southern states. You only have to look at the electoral map in 1992 and 1996, when Clinton won, to see how the consolidation of a Confederacy-based GOP and a Union-based Democratic party has intensified - and now even more under a black president from, ahem, Illinois.  I find it troubling - and interesting.

The current electoral map without toss-up states, and only the states that were in existence in 1861

The states in 1861, colored for their position on slavery