Dave Weigel accumulates more proof that birtherism isn't a Republican thing, so much as a Southern Republican thing: only 9% of Utah residents doubt Obama's citizenship. Daniel Larison's theory that birtherism's Southern preeminence is merely the function of increased GOP partisanship in the region continues to sound shaky to me. I tend more often than not to roll my eyes when liberal bloggers try to reduce conservatism's appeal to a purely revanchist take on race (smarter lefties realize that it wasn't just race), but in this case, it's a theory which fits all the facts in a way that more charitable theories don't.
At this point, though, I think it's too late for Republicans to unpop this particular Jack-in-the-box.
