Fertile Ground: The South Is America’s New Battleground

The next founding of American democracy is rising in the South. It is time to invest like it.

(Screenshot, via CNN)

On Election Day, the South saved America. Again.

While this country has been on a slow ride to hell, Black Southerners and a new multiracial coalition grabbed the wheel. In the Deep South, we turned out in a midterm like it was a presidential year. We flipped seats nobody thought we could flip. We elected leaders nobody thought could…