Largely unnoticed in the landslide win of the Republican party was the success of the ballot in Arizona to put an end to affirmative action in government contracting and education.

Maybe more important, in the long run, was the backing of the Arizona Republican party. While affirmative action was defeated in my own, dear Michigan several years ago the state Republican party didn't want to have anything to do with it.

Does this signal a change of heart in the Republican party? I sure hope so because it would help the cause of bringing affirmative action to an end. It would also drive one more stake into the heart of racial politics.

Good article at City Journal by Sol Stern - http://www.city-journal.org/2010/eon1119hs.html.

    Will that stand though? does it, will it override federal affirmative reverse discrimination laws

Arizona only and if the past is any guide the affirmative action folks will have already hit the courts even though they've lost ever time they gone to the courts. But it's rare that anything truly worth doing is easy so, one state at a time, affirmative action'll be taken down until this affront to the idea that all men are created equal passes into the past.