From Thom Hartmann's radio show this week, he's asked by a caller if he's read Tim Dickinson's article at Rolling Stone titled How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich and as Hartmann pointed out in his response to the caller, you've actually got to go back a whole lot further than Dickinson did in his article, like around the late 1870's and early 1880's when they were corrupted by the railroad barons as to when that shift began.