Tell it to Jimmy Carter.
No need to
1964 presidential candidate Barry Goldwater won his home state of Arizona and five states in the Deep South, depicted in red. The Southern states, traditionally Democratic up to that time, voted Republican primarily as a statement of opposition to the Civil Rights Act, which had been passed in Congress earlier that year. Capturing 61.1% of the popular vote and 486 electors, Johnson won in a landslide.
Many of the states' rights Democrats were attracted to the 1964 presidential campaignof conservative Republican Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona. Goldwater was notably more conservative than previous Republican nominees, such as President Eisenhower. Goldwater's principal opponent in the primary election, Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York, was widely seen as representing the more moderate, pro-Civil Rights Act, Northern wing of the party (see Rockefeller Republicanand Goldwater Republican).[36]
In the 1964 presidential election, Goldwater ran a conservative campaign that broadly opposed strong action by the federal government. Although he had supported all previous federal civil rights legislation, Goldwater decided to oppose the Civil Rights Act.[37] He believed that this act was an intrusion of the federal government into the affairs of state; and second, that the Act interfered with the rights of private persons to do business, or not, with whomever they chose, even if the choice is based on racial discrimination.
Goldwater's position appealed to white Southern Democrats and Goldwater was the first Republican presidential candidate since Reconstruction to win the electoral votes of the Deep South states (Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina). Outside the South, Goldwater's negative vote on the Civil Rights Act proved devastating to his campaign.
"Although he had supported all previous federal civil rights legislation, Goldwater decided to oppose the Civil Rights Act.[37] He believed that this act was an intrusion of the federal government into the affairs of state; and second, that the Act interfered with the rights of private persons to do business, or not, with whomever they chose, even if the choice is based on racial discrimination."
Correct.
His campaign platform did NOT represent any repudiation of the Civil Rights that the GOP had been at the forefront of.
And later on, in 1976, Jimmy Carter, running as a by then, pro civil rights Democrat, swept the South.
Disproving the idea that the SOuth was flipped by Nixon's mythical "Southern Strategy".
It disproves nothing in terms of why the southern democrats became republicans.
Elections are won and lost based on party platforms from election to election.
Carter promptly lost every state in the south except for 2 in 1980.
The myth of the Southern Strategy is that the Southern Democrats became republicans because their racism was pandered to by Nixon. And by every gop candidate since then, keeping the South GOP.
Thus Carter's win, shows that that is false.
That, as you said, "Elections are won and lost based on party platforms from election to election."
Carter certainly did not run on a racist platform. ANd yet he won the South.
That is the opposite of what the Southern Strategy claims.
Carter ran on a platform that blocked the Southern Strategy for ONE election cycle. That is obvious.
His win in 1976 did not disprove what happened 8 years prior in 1968.
Why did James Earl Carter win the 1976 presidential election?
How did Carter supposedly "block" the supposed "Southern Strategy"?
