Morning Jay: The Importance of 'Post Office' Republicans

Today, I want to talk about a group of voters in the GOP primary process that I call the “Post Office” Republicans.

This term has some very old origins, dating back to the days of the Solid (Democratic) South. From the end of Reconstruction in 1876 until the Eisenhower victories in the 1950s, the Republican party was mostly non-existent in the South. There were a few places where, and a few times when, that did not hold true, but by and large the GOP was not a political factor in Dixie. And yet the Republicans consistently awarded the South scores of delegates at the party’s national convention.