Ed Kilgore Dept: In the wake of Barack Obama's victory, Republicans are fielding far more non-white candidates than ever before, many of them far to the right, according to Globe And Mail. Other Republican candidates include Asian Americans such as Nikki Haley who won the S.C. gubernatorial primary after a campaign filled with accusations of infidelity and of faking her religious conversion and Van Tran, African Americans such as Star Parker and Bill Randall and Hispanics such as Robert Enriquez and Susana Martinez and few politicians better symbolize the hypocrisy and rigidness of the Old South than Strom Thurmond. While his son's defeat by a black candidate may be seen as racial progress, many ironies are built in: Mr. Scott, who was endorsed by the Tea Party movement and Sarah Palin, won by presenting himself as a more conservative alternative. “The minority candidates being promoted by the conservative movement all seem to be hard-core ideologues,” Ed Kilgore of the website Democratic Strategist tells me by e-mail. “Tim Scott was actually co-chairman of Strom's last Senate campaign.” So the real story may be that Strom Thurmond's spiritual son defeated his biological one. As
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