pat buchanan, a new gingrich and others. i think what happens in american political history certain ideas dominates and certain political imperatives shape the landscape and over time they start to wane as new political questions arise and new players come onto the scene to change political identity. but in some ways like democratic liberalism in the '70s the republican right has run at of gas were in the drug of splintering it with a major internal fight over the future direction of the party. it was interesting to see in the republican primary you had a whole range of candidates none of them who could fully credibly claim conservative credentials but yet all of them invoking reagan over and over. >> host: what does that mean for the south? >> is very much in play the way it has not been in a generation. the last national presidential election resaw it in north carolina georgia, mississippi across the south i think black voters are playing a more rolled 1/2 and latino voters are playing a more decisive role and white voters