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re: Nixon’s southern strategy
Posted on 2/8/20 at 7:38 pm to bdavids09
Posted on 2/8/20 at 7:38 pm to bdavids09
If the parties switched & the south is racist, then why did the South not go solidly Republican until the mid 80s to 90’s?
Bill Clinton won LA ffs.
Of the 21 Democrat senators who opposed the civil rights act, only 1 switched to the Republican Party. The rest stayed and died as Democrats.
Nixon lost the south in 68, Carter won it in 76, Clinton won GA, Tenn, KY, LA, WV in 92.
Civil Rights act was 1964. Southern congressional seats didn’t swing Republican until 1994, did it take 30 years to turn racist?
frick off Troll OP
Bill Clinton won LA ffs.
Of the 21 Democrat senators who opposed the civil rights act, only 1 switched to the Republican Party. The rest stayed and died as Democrats.
Nixon lost the south in 68, Carter won it in 76, Clinton won GA, Tenn, KY, LA, WV in 92.
Civil Rights act was 1964. Southern congressional seats didn’t swing Republican until 1994, did it take 30 years to turn racist?
frick off Troll OP
This post was edited on 2/8/20 at 7:43 pm
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Posted on 2/8/20 at 7:50 pm to 225bred
quote:
If the parties switched & the south is racist, then why did the South not go solidly Republican until the mid 80s to 90’s?
Bill Clinton won LA ffs.
Of the 21 Democrat senators who opposed the civil rights act, only 1 switched to the Republican Party. The rest stayed and died as Democrats.
Nixon lost the south in 68, Carter won it in 76, Clinton won GA, Tenn, KY, LA, WV in 92.
Civil Rights act was 1964. Southern congressional seats didn’t swing Republican until 1994, did it take 30 years to turn racist?
Nailed it.
Storm Thurmond is the only Dem to switch to republican post civil rights act.
The rest of the “racist areas” in the south didn’t go republican till the late 90s (outside of Reagan... but everybody voted for Reagan.)
Posted on 2/8/20 at 11:15 pm to 225bred
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Nixon lost the south in 68, Carter won it in 76, Clinton won GA, Tenn, KY, LA, WV in 92.
And Gore lost his home state of Tenn. and their 6 electoral votes in 2000 which cost him the election.
Remember that?
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