And then they turned on each other

"In a fusillade of pique, Ohio Sen. George Voinovich (R) charged that Southerners are what's wrong with the Republican Party...

"The curious Republican campaign of 2008 may have galvanized a conservative Southern base -- including many who were mostly concerned with the direction Democrats would take the country -- but it also repelled others who simply bolted and ran the other way. Whatever legitimate concerns the GOP may historically have represented were suddenly overshadowed by a sense of a resurgent Old South and all the attendant pathologies of festering hate and fear."