That South loved buffoons, corny oratory and the smell of violence; its prophets were demagogues like “Tom Tom” Heflin, Huey Long, Senator Bilbo and the late governor-elect of Georgia ...

In recent decades the South has given the U.S. Senate more than its share of sub-minor statesmen of the Heflin-Bilbo stamp. But the South has competition. Last week the confirmation of Earl Warren ...