In last week’s issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Fred Barnes wrote on the Republican wave that finally swept over the Alabama legislature. Later that week, four Democrats in the Alabama state legislature became Republicans, giving the GOP a super-majority in the state House.

Jonathan Martin has more on the fall of the Democrats’ last bastions in the South: 

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