The combox will probably be populated mostly by those who object and self-righteously hurl invectives against Calhoun and racism and those who dare look to Calhoun as any sort of source of political thought.
White Elephants: Are Republicans an Endangered Species?
That leaves what might be called the Calhoun option. More popular at the local level than with the national party, at least publicly, this strategy involves legal changes that would limit the influence of the coming majority, which is younger and less white. Some of these measures have been justified by concerns about widespread electoral fraud that are mostly sincere but have no empirical basis. Others are explicitly political. For example, it’s a feature, not a bug, that plans to split states’ electoral votes by congressional district give rural votes greater weight than urban ones (and we know who lives in cities).
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