Matthews: Modern GOP Is ‘Pro-White,’ ‘Mormon and Conservative’

WILLIAMS: “Chris, who is the Republican Establishment?”

MATTHEWS: “Well, we know who it was. It was the Bush family. And the Bush family was sort of pushed aside briefly by the Reagans, sort of Bonapartist era for a bit. It was back to the Bushes. It’s Bob Dole. It’s Bob Michael. It’s Midwest, as I said, cloth-cut Republicans, generally, with some old money like the Bushes. It’s a party of the Northeast and the Midwest, historically, and now more the Midwest, of course its been supplanted by sun belt because of the civil rights passage in ‘64. As Lyndon Johnson well foretold, darkly foretold, It would be the end of the Solid South. Now, we have a Solid South which is pro-white in the South and we have a western party in the mountain states, which is Mormon and conservative. So, except for the left coast, as we still cheerily call it, California and Washington state and Oregon and sweeping over to the east, the country is pretty red.”