Post by propagandist on Apr 12, 2013 8:57:58 GMT -7
Nixon's Southern strategy
The racist white Southern Republican grandchildren of former Democratic Southern white racists now rule the South.
Anti-Democratic right wingers just love to show pictures of the civil rights era - the dogs, the fire hoses, the billy clubs - and mention that all the Southern white racists were Democrats.
While all that may be true, what the right wing consistently and conveniently fails to mention (because the truth is too painful to its own history) is that the Republican Party specifically targeted these same Southern white racists for recruitment.
The Republican Party had a specific plan to turn such Southern white racists into the Solid Red Dixie we see today. The success of this plan involved embracing those in the South seen as “negrophobes.”
The full treatment:
Jon Stewart “The Daily Show” April 11, 2013
www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-april-11-2013/guess-who-s-coming-to-howard
A more complete treatment:
With maps and pictures:
forum.tuscaloosanews.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=18139#p289842
The racist white Southern Republican grandchildren of former Democratic Southern white racists now rule the South.
Anti-Democratic right wingers just love to show pictures of the civil rights era - the dogs, the fire hoses, the billy clubs - and mention that all the Southern white racists were Democrats.
While all that may be true, what the right wing consistently and conveniently fails to mention (because the truth is too painful to its own history) is that the Republican Party specifically targeted these same Southern white racists for recruitment.
The Republican Party had a specific plan to turn such Southern white racists into the Solid Red Dixie we see today. The success of this plan involved embracing those in the South seen as “negrophobes.”
Nixon's Southern strategy 'It's All In the Charts'By JAMES BOYD, New York Times, May 17, 1970
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.
www.nytimes.com/packages/html/books/phillips-southern.pdf
The full treatment:
Jon Stewart “The Daily Show” April 11, 2013
www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-april-11-2013/guess-who-s-coming-to-howard
A more complete treatment:
The New Negrophobes
The Southern political shift from Democratic to Republican loyalties, which we saw happening first in the 1964 presidential election between Goldwater and Johnson. Goldwater’s appeal to Southern white conservatives, of course, was based on his opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and his failure to attract legions of black supporters and his “success” in attracting conservative whites sent a message to other Republicans, including Kevin Phillips, who was back then a Richard Nixon political strategist.
duanegraham.wordpress.com/tag/southern-strategy/
With maps and pictures:
forum.tuscaloosanews.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=18139#p289842