“Southern United States” on The Daily Caller

In November, the GOP made major inroads into the South — a region the party already dominated. Republicans now control 9 of the South’s 11 governor’s mansions and 131 of its 155 Senate and House seats.* (more)

A column written by Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Intelligence Project, has found its way into an unlikely place — “People’s World,” the official online newspaper of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). (more)

Three weeks after burying ex-wife and breast cancer victim Elizabeth Edwards, John Edwards has proposed to Rielle Hunter, his mistress and the mother of his infant daughter, the National Enquirer reported Thursday. (more)

You might be a redneck if…you create a dues-paying society and a scholarship fund? (more)

Republicans are making some big promises to try to lure West Virginia Senator-elect Joe Manchin to cross the aisle. (more)

Trent Lott, the former senate majority leader from Mississippi, made news last summer when he said this of incoming tea party-backed senators: “As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them.” Lott’s words have since been held up as evidence that the Republican establishment in Washington is corrupt and out of touch – as case made most recently by Sen. Jim DeMint, in a widely-read op-ed that ran in Wednesday’s Wall St. Journal. (more)

Democratic West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin is looking for voters — but not for his U.S. Senate race against Republican John Raese. (more)

West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin’s senatorial campaign released a new ad in which the Democrat is calling his Republican opponent John Raese’s policy ideas “crazy.” (more)

The National Republican Senatorial Committee rushed to the aid of Kentucky’s Tea Party favorite Senate candidate Rand Paul with a new ad Monday railing against Democratic candidate Jack Conway. (more)

Republican Rand Paul hit back at Democrat Jack Conway Monday, accusing his opponent in the race for Kentucky’s Senate seat of “bearing false witness.” (more)

Republican Rand Paul continues to hold a double-digit lead over Democrat Jack Conway in Kentucky’s U.S. Senate race. (more)

Despite signals from South Carolina Republican Sen. Jim DeMint that he might prolong the Senate session by blocking a stopgap resolution to keep the government running until December, DeMint said Wednesday he would not stop the bill from proceeding. (more)

Republican John Raese has edged ahead of West Virginia’s popular Democratic Governor Joe Manchin for the first time in the state’s special U.S. Senate race. (more)

For the fourth straight month, the rematch in Maryland between Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley and Republican challenger Bob Ehrlich remains close. O’Malley defeated Ehrlich, who was the state’s first GOP governor since the 1960s, in 2006. (more)

For Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn, not all hypotheticals are created equal. (more)

The Senate’s Republican leader said Tuesday he would support Christine O’Donnell if she wins Delaware’s GOP primary. (more)

The dam is breaking. (more)

In the first Rasmussen Reports post-primary survey of West Virginia’s U.S. Senate race, Democratic Governor Joe Manchin attracts 48% of the vote while Republican businessman John Raese earns 42%. (more)

Support for incumbent Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln has now fallen to its lowest level yet as Republican John Boozman remains on track to shift Arkansas’ Senate seat to the GOP column. (more)

Republican Rand Paul still holds a modest lead over Democrat Jack Conway in Kentucky’s U.S. Senate contest. (more)