AP: Democrats in Mississippi “perilously close to dissolution”

With GOP in charge, 1-party rule returns to Mississippi: analysis

Democrats’ performance this year in Mississippi suggests, at least among the state’s white residents, that the party is not only a permanent underdog, but is coming perilously close to dissolution. With continued Republican gains in the state House pushing the GOP to a supermajority, Democrats won’t be able to block most things that a unified GOP wants….

…Democratic strategist and author Jere Nash said he saw similar appeals in other parts of the state.

“The Republicans clearly developed a strategy based not on attacking Democrats but urged voters to vote the Republican brand,” he said. “It was effective. It worked.”

Gulflive
11/8/15