Quoted: Linda Fowler on the Late Jim Jeffords

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Dartmouth Now takes note when faculty members weigh in on issues of the day. Here is today’s “Quoted”:

“It’s part and parcel of the southernization of the Republican Party,” part of a “major realignment in the U.S. party system going on for about 25 years now,” says Professor of Government Emeritus Linda Fowler in an Associated Press story about Sen. Jim Jeffords, a Vermonter whose 2001 split from the GOP to become an independent shifted control of the Senate from the Republicans to the Democrats.

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