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Oct 21, 2010 • By JAY COST Widget tooltip Single Page Print
Larger Text Smaller Text Alerts  This chart includes the key
policymaking committees in the House, and it pretty much speaks
for itself.  We can get another read on the tilt of these
leading Democrats through geography.  Below is a Google Map with
a marker on the districts of all the committee chairs, plus the
top party leaders:  If you are in need of assistance from a
powerful Democrat and you find yourself on I-5 in California or
I-95 between Baltimore and Boston, it’s a safe bet you’ll be
able to track one down.  Otherwise, tough luck!  Why has this
happened?    It’s a consequence of the shift in the Democratic
coalition in the last 40 years.  The Republicans won a majority
of Southern House seats for the first time since Reconstruction
in 1994, and all but a handful of the old time conservative
Democrats (like Mississippi’s Gene Taylor) have since been
cleaned out.   That left the N