The new face of the Republican party

Congratulations to South Carolina Republicans, who have just nominated Nikki Haley for governor. She was born Nimrata Nikki Kaur Randhawa, a first-generation American whose parents are Sikhs from Armritsar in northwest India. She won 65 percent of the vote against a white, male six-term Congressman.

That's so wonderful that the New York Times needed another two paragraphs to get to the news that South Carolina Republicans also nominated Tim Scott for Congress. Though his American roots go back further than Ms. Haley's, Mr. Scott is black. The man he defeated was the son of the great segregationist and Dixicrat candidate for president, Strom Thurmond. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford