georgephillip
Diamond Member
I understand how vital Big Lies are to conservatives, especially in the Age of Trump.You're conflating Nixon's actions BEFORE he won the presidency with actions he was forced to initiate AFTER winning, aren't you?There never was any such 'Southern Strategy.' You're simply too stupid to recognize how you've been lied to.
Here's NYTimes Wicker admitting that there never was any Southern Strategy.
“Tom Wicker, the progressive columnist for the New York Times, gave his appraisal of Nixon’s desegregation efforts. “There’s no doubt about it—the Nixon administration accomplished more in 1970 to desegregate Southern school systems than had been done in the 16 previous years or probably since.
Southern strategy - Wikipedia
"Although the phrase 'Southern Strategy' is often attributed to Nixon's political strategist Kevin Phillips, he did not originate it[15] but popularized it.[16]
"In an interview included in a 1970 New York Times article, Phillips stated his analysis based on studies of ethnic voting:
"'From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that... but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.[1]'
"While Phillips sought to increase Republican power by polarizing ethnic voting in general, and not just to win the white South, the South was by far the biggest prize yielded by his approach."
There never was any such Southern Strategy.....only racist Democrats who formed the Dixiecrats.....not the Dixiecans.
In order to hide their racist background, the Democrats/Liberals have developed a story line that the party created to end slavery somehow decided to ‘flip’ and become an endorser of racism….and then engaged in a ‘Southern Strategy’ to win the racist vote in the South.
Bogus.
George Wallace votes went to Democrats.
Wallace was a Democrat, and the same people who voted for Wallace voted Democrat...
Slavers, segregationists, and other racists.
"Four years after Goldwater, the segregationist vote went right back to Democrats: Humphrey got half of Wallace’s supporters on election day. Nixon got none of ‘em.
“When the '68 campaign began, Nixon was at 42 percent, Humphrey at 29 percent, Wallace at 22 percent. When it ended, Nixon and Humphrey were tied at 43 percent, with Wallace at 13 percent. The 9 percent of the national vote that had been peeled off from Wallace had gone to Humphrey.” Pat Buchanan - The neocons & Nixon's southern strategy
Watch how Buchanan characterizes the Democrat Party:
"Richard Nixon kicked off his historic comeback in 1966 with a column on the South (by Buchanan) that declared we would build our Republican Party on a foundation of states rights, human rights, small government and a strong national defense, and leave it to the "party of Maddox, Mahoney and Wallace to squeeze the last ounces of political juice out of the rotting fruit of racial injustice."
What did the racist party….the Democrats….do?
They authored the Southern Strategy myth.
Some fools still believe it.
The Democrat Party of Jefferson Davis, Bull Connor, and Bill Clinton has always been the party of slavery, segregation, and second-class citizenship. The ‘Southern Strategy’ claim is an attempt to hid this.
What role did Lee Atwater play in the creation of Nixon's and Reagan"s southern strategy?
Lee Atwater - Wikipedia
"As a member of the Reagan administration in 1981, Atwater gave an anonymous interview to political scientist Alexander P. Lamis. Part of the interview was printed in Lamis' book The Two-Party South, then reprinted in Southern Politics in the 1990s with Atwater's name revealed.
"Bob Herbert reported on the interview in the October 6, 2005, issue of The New York Times.
"On November 13, 2012, The Nation magazine released a 42-minute audio recording of the interview.[10]
"James Carter IV, grandson of former president Jimmy Carter, had asked and been granted access to these tapes by Lamis' widow.
"Atwater talked about the Republican Southern strategy:
"Atwater: As to the whole Southern strategy that Harry S. Dent, Sr. and others put together in 1968, opposition to the Voting Rights Act would have been a central part of keeping the South. Now you don't have to do that. All that you need to do to keep the South is for Reagan to run in place on the issues that he's campaigned on since 1964, and that's fiscal conservatism, balancing the budget, cut taxes, you know, the whole cluster."
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You know...the whole right-wing, racist Republican cluster (f*ck) rabbit hole that unprincipled partisans like yourself will never live long enough to emerge from?