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Nixon's Southern Strategy a Big Liberal Lie
Posted on 7/7/14 at 10:58 am
Posted on 7/7/14 at 10:58 am
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Posted on 7/7/14 at 11:04 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
I'm gonna try to read this with an open mind, but I have to say this coming from paleocon Pat Buchanan is a bit much.
Posted on 7/7/14 at 11:13 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
Quick read. Pretty good. Will not matter to Progressives on this board. History has already been effectively re-written.
Posted on 7/7/14 at 11:31 am to Tchefuncte Tiger
Okay, I read the column and it's a bit of a mess. He makes some good points, but spends more time labeling the Democratic party as the one opposing civil rights in the 50's and 60's. It's true most of the opposition came from the Democratic party, but it was almost entirely the Southern faction of the Democratic party that opposed it.
Is the Southern Strategy(it was more Kevin Phillips's strategy than Nixon's) a bit overblown? Perhaps a little, but I think it's more than just coincidence that the South was such a Democratic stronghold for so long and soon after Nixon's White House, it's moved to a Republican stronghold. I don't think it was so much that Republicans adopted racist, segregationist views, but rather showed the racist Southerners that blacks were starting to vote Democrat.
Is the Southern Strategy(it was more Kevin Phillips's strategy than Nixon's) a bit overblown? Perhaps a little, but I think it's more than just coincidence that the South was such a Democratic stronghold for so long and soon after Nixon's White House, it's moved to a Republican stronghold. I don't think it was so much that Republicans adopted racist, segregationist views, but rather showed the racist Southerners that blacks were starting to vote Democrat.
Posted on 7/7/14 at 11:42 am to The Spleen
Dems had the AA vote since FDR.
Posted on 7/7/14 at 11:56 am to The Spleen
quote:
Okay, I read the column and it's a bit of a mess. He makes some good points, but spends more time labeling the Democratic party as the one opposing civil rights in the 50's and 60's. It's true most of the opposition came from the Democratic party, but it was almost entirely the Southern faction of the Democratic party that opposed it.
Is the Southern Strategy(it was more Kevin Phillips's strategy than Nixon's) a bit overblown? Perhaps a little, but I think it's more than just coincidence that the South was such a Democratic stronghold for so long and soon after Nixon's White House, it's moved to a Republican stronghold. I don't think it was so much that Republicans adopted racist, segregationist views, but rather showed the racist Southerners that blacks were starting to vote Democrat.
i really like pat but that piece wasn't particularly well thought out. The southern strategy was about getting elected, not about policy.
Posted on 7/7/14 at 12:16 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
Here's one well-known racist Republican:
-Abraham Lincoln
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I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position. I have never said anything to the contrary, but I hold that, notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
-Abraham Lincoln
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