The myth of the so called "southern strategy" brought about by leftist propagandists.

[marvin martian]

Yup

Show me ONE that supports the Democratic policies I listed

 

[jc456]

Nikki's recent screw up proves the Southern Strategy is real.

Haley’s staggering ignorance about the cause of the US civil war unintentionally revealed her quandary in the Republican party. It was not a gaffe. Though it was a stumble, it was not a mistake, but a message she has delivered for years and that has served her well until now. Her carefully crafted and closely memorized garble was a deracinated version of an old lie, which she had used before to attempt to mollify hostile camps in order to skid by. Some in the past praised her evasive formula as governor of South Carolina as her finest moment. It lifted her star. Yet one simple question instantly produced panicky rapid eye movements that are the telltale sign of a person desperately cornered, followed by an unstoppable stream of blather that she hoped would make it all evaporate into a meaningless ether but instead this time slid her into an abyss. Her performance, the most memorable of her entire career, was so devastating that even Ron DeSantis commented: “Yikes.” For a second she turned Ron DeSantis woke.

Of course, the answer is an easy one for any eighth grader. But for Haley it went to the molten core of the history and politics of South Carolina, where she had been governor, to the southern strategy that realigned the Republican party...

Nikki Haley’s comment on the US civil war was no gaffe | Sidney Blumenthal

When asked about the cause of the civil war, she failed to mention slavery once. That is no surprise

www.theguardian.com

Cause you say so does not make it a fact. You can pout all you want.

 

[Rawley]

Initially
Jimmy Carter held off the conversion for a few years.
By Reagan, the South had turned Red

Because the Dems had gone all in on Abortion and Anti-war.

 

[sealybobo]

Cause you say so does not make it a fact. You can pout all you want.

The scene, a deeply conservative town of 50,000 north of Oklahoma City, where a small band of progressive liberal democratic activists begged their conservative Republican elected officials to, at the very least, acknowledge that there might be a neo-Nazi in City Hall.

Four years earlier journalists and anti-fascists had published research identifying Blevins as a leader in the now-defunct white nationalist group Identity Evropa. But voters elected Blevins anyway. And since Blevins took his oath of office, the white conservative Republican mayor and other conservative Repubican city commissioners have remained largely silent about his past.

He Didn’t Deny Being A White Supremacist. Then He Was Elected To City Council.

Judson Blevins, a city commissioner in Enid, Oklahoma, won’t refute evidence tying him to a secretive fascist group. Does the city care enough to recall him from office?

www.huffpost.com