Hmmmmm...This is interesting "It's beginning to feel like the Confederacy

[SCantiGOP]

1. I have often contended that the South won the Civil War

It just took 100 years.
By the 1960's the Democrats were in power, and their dominance would not have been possible without the 'Solid South,' and a majority of House and Senate committees were led by Southerners.
The way the South 'won' was by using the Seniority system that existed in the Senate. They kept returning the same old segregationists, and before long they were in position to dominate the committees, which was where most of the real work was done.
On the House side, you had Mendall Rivers who served in the House for 30 years, the last 3 terms as head of the Armed Services Committee. By the time he died in office, there were so many military facilities in SC (Charleston had an Air Force base, a submarine base and a major naval yard for ship maintenance, while the largest Army and Marine training bases were also in SC) that the joke was that if SC seceded from the US again, it would be a military standoff.