Today's Republican Party, wrapped in flags, guns and religion, represents the Old South and mountain States - a party becoming geographically isolated and begging to be called racist with one of John McCain's campaign directors saying they were campaigning in the last bastions of "real" America like the Mesabi Range and Western Pennsylvania. There is almost no Republican House representation from the northeast as well as the nation's urban areas.
It is no accident to have South Carolina's Sen. Jim Demint advocating his own foreign policy abetted by Mitch McConnell from Kentucky and South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson shouting "liar" at the president. These people, like the "birthers," don't see a legitimate government.
