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What yesterday's election ^finally means is a subject to be debated for many, many months to come.

For some it signifies a New South, a dissapearance of yesterday's politics of race in this region, and the return of the Confederate states ^back into the Union.

For others, the election will have no regional significance at all, but will serve ^only as a classic example of an outsider's achievement against entrenched ^{ane established} power.

For others, this will mark the first American election in which Black voters "qualified" a candidate, made it all right for [illegible] suspicious ^voters often while [illegible to cast their votes for a white Southerner. For some, it simply means that the electorate had had too much for crime in the suites, too much unemployment and inflation, too much of an administration that government governed by veto, and that Democrats turn had come round again.

For whatever reason or combination of reasons, one man has triumphed and another lost. In the process, new political fortunes have been made.