On Lindsey Graham.................................

The really inspiring thing about Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who on June 1st announced his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, is "his message that the whole world is going down the tubes".  That was the slightly bleak endorsement offered by Stephen Young, a retired business-owner looking on when the senator launched his campaign in Central, the blink-and-you-miss-it country town where he grew up.
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      Mr Graham's survival in South Carolina offers several lessons.  The first is that even deeply conservative places are not monolithic.  South Carolina peach-farmers, for instance, are both powerful and desperate for migrant labour, because their delicate fruit cannot be picked by machine (and locals dislike the work).  In recent years some evangelical Christian pastors have joined business leaders in publicly backing immigration reform, citing biblical injunctions to welcome strangers and preserve families.  Most voters in South Carolina had the idea of rewarding law-breakers.  But most also know that 11m people cannot be rounded up and deported without turning the country into a "concentration camp", says Dale Sutton, a Southern Baptist pastor who has spoken out for reform.  Thus they know that some sort of compromise is unavoidable.

-Two excerpts from this The Economist essay, "Why Lindsey Graham matters"