You just stepped into the biggest cow patty. In the 60's and 70's the GOP was white, liberal rich people. The south was predominately Democrats. White, black, purple and polka dotted. The Democrat Party took a sharp left with LBJ and his "Great Society". What was the "Great Society" you might ask? It was his plan to attract white liberals & keep black folk voting Democrat for the next 100 years. (I toned down his exact words, do yourself a favor to look what his words were). Southern white folks didn't leave the Dimtard Party, it left them.
And here we are 50 years later. Many of the poor black folk are still on that plantation, still voting against their own political interests. You've been hoodwinked.
Kinda funny how you ignore exactly what the GOP admitted to....
Your ignorance as to what the "Southern Strategy" was/is reeks off of you. You conveniently ignore the political ideological difference within both the Democratc(N.Dems more liberal and push for Civil rights; S.Dems conservative and against equal rights) and Republican (Eastern Repubs more liberal vs Western Repubs more conservative) parties during the 20th Century. You still can't even formulate a factual argument that even legitimately contradicts actual history
But Your whole schtik is stuff and occurred pre-Goldwater/Nixon. But lets agree the Southern Democrats were racist AF. They joined the KKK, they flew the Confedeate Battle Flag at civil rights marches, they favored segregation, they voted Democrat because it kept the Dixiecrats in Power. The were the Part of "State's Rights" over Federal Power.
Was the "Southern Strategy" based solely on racial angst amongst white Southern Dems, absolutely not,no political strategy is, based on on issue Its foolish to think, that is what I m implying.
Yet, your obvious cognitive dissonance ignores the fact that the GOP, self-admittedly,courted white Southerners, who previously voted Democrat. Oh wait, you listen to "pop" revisionists like Dinesh DeSousa(since you've qoted him before"
Yet, that rat ignores..
In 1969, an aide in the Nixon White House named Kevin Phillips
published a book titled the
Emerging Republican Majority. The book argued that the Republican Party needed to use racial and social issues to build up a base of socially conservative voters in the south. Although he has discussed other targeted political issues, race was an issue and used to curry votes from white Southerns pissed about the Civil Rights Act..
Then there is this quote be Lee Atwater a GOP political strategist on the "Southern Strategy"
You start out in 1954 by saying, “N, n, n.” By 1968 you can’t say “n”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N, n.”
Then this in 2005
| GOP Apologizes for Southern Strategy
Mike Allen, �RNC Chief to Say It Was �Wrong� to Exploit Racial Conflict for Votes,� July 14, 2005
It was called "the southern strategy," started under Richard M. Nixon in 1968, and described Republican efforts to use race as a wedge issue -- on matters such as desegregation and busing -- to appeal to white southern voters.
Ken Mehlman, the Republican National Committee chairman, this morning will tell the NAACP national convention in Milwaukee that it was "wrong." |
So you see, those white Southern voters of the racist AF Democrat party now vote for the GOP.
Who do leaders and members of the KKK support now, the GOP.
Who do those folks that waive the Confederate Battle Flag overwhelmingly vote for? The GOP.
Who does far right known racist organizations throw their support behind? The GOP.
In these "Sundown" towns(racial segregation) that exist, who do they vote for? The GOP.
What party is now all about States rights? The GOP.
But yeah, according to you there was no "Southern Strategy" even though GOP operatives/campaign managers/RNC chairpersons admit it. Somehow the type of folks that demonstrated racist behavior back in the day voted Dem, but now those same types with the same type of racist behavior now vote GOP...
Coincidence? Naaaaah.
Am I suggesting every GOP is racist etc... no. Just like every Dem back in the day wasn't racist.
But to somehow ignore the type of folks who used to vote Dem in the South, now vote GOP, is foolish.
