Mencken’s Last Campaign by H.L. Mencken

“The delegates, taking them one with another, have seemed to me to be of generally low intelligence but it is easy to overestimate the idiocy of the participants in such mass paranoias. People of genuine sense seldom come to them, and when they do come they are not much heard from.”
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“The South, for years past, has been a sewer of imbecility. It has supported every major aberration, whether political or social, that has afflicted the country, and it has supported most of them with a degree of enthusiasm bordering on the delirious…When the last of its Civil War heroes died it went underground, intellectually speaking, and there it has remained ever since.”

-H.L. Mencken, 1948