The Super Tuesday primaries underscore how super Southern our presidential nominating process has become. This makes our way of picking standard-bearers unrepresentative of the country as a whole. In particular, it sharply reduces the influence of the great American Midwest even though the region’s states are among the most important general-election battlegrounds.
Southernization is a special problem for Republicans because their Southern supporters tend to be far more socially conservative than the rest of the party or the country. CONT.
E.J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post