Tamil Nadu was the solid bastion of the Congre ss pary,which it miserably lost due to its lan guage goof up in the year 1965.Since then it is riding piggy back on either DMK or ADMK as it can not win any election on its own.I pers onally feel the public ire could have been for Times of India as it must have carried some write up against a local politician and not that American Time got mixed up with Times of India.
