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I liked Reagan but he opened his campaign in Philadelphia MS, the town in which the movie Mississippi Burning is set. Now, why would a California governor start his campaign in the city best known for killing three student civil rights workers?
I see.
Reagan gave a speech at a county fair in a town that was not the site of the Mississippi murders but was the setting of a 1988 movie based on those events.
Yeah, that's a big problem.
Murders of three civil rights workers
Philadelphia is known as the site of one of the most infamous race-related crimes in American history. Shortly after midnight on June 21, 1964, three civil rights workers were murdered by white supremacists on a highway outside of Philadelphia. The crime and decades-long legal aftermath inspired the 1988 movie Mississippi Burning.
[edit] Ronald Reagan's visit
Main article: Ronald Reagan's speech at the Neshoba County Fair
On August 3, 1980, Ronald Reagan gave his first post-convention speech after being officially chosen as the Republican nominee for President of the United States at the Neshoba County Fair. The speech drew attention for his use of the phrase "states' rights" at a place just a few miles from a town associated with the 1964 murders of civil rights workers. Reagan said, "I believe in states' rights ... I believe we have distorted the balance of our government today by giving powers that were never intended to be given in the Constitution to that federal establishment." He went on to promise to "restore to states and local governments the power that properly belongs to them".[2] The use of the phrase was seen by many as a tacit appeal to Southern white voters and a continuation of Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy, while some argued it merely reflected Reagan's libertarian economic beliefs.
Philadelphia, Mississippi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Of all the places to begin his campaign, this is where he chose to start it.
I've been talking about that for ages."For the last 40-plus years we had a 'Southern Strategy' that alienated many minority voters by focusing on the white male vote in the South. Well, guess what happened in 1992, folks, 'Bubba' went back home to the Democratic Party and voted for Bill Clinton."
African-Americans not given good reason to vote GOP :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Politics
I've been talking about that for ages."For the last 40-plus years we had a 'Southern Strategy' that alienated many minority voters by focusing on the white male vote in the South. Well, guess what happened in 1992, folks, 'Bubba' went back home to the Democratic Party and voted for Bill Clinton."
African-Americans not given good reason to vote GOP :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Politics
What do Cons think of their fearless leader pointing it out?
Why? To get Southern votes, and he did.I liked Reagan but he opened his campaign in Philadelphia MS, the town in which the movie Mississippi Burning is set. Now, why would a California governor start his campaign in the city best known for killing three student civil rights workers?
Hilarious, they weren't killed in Philadelphia MS. They were killed by Robert Byrd's Alma Mater, the guy who said "I'll have them ******* voting Democratic for the next 200 years" was President and who also had MLK and Malcolm X whacked...but Reagan was a racist
it really cracks me up to see republicans on here denying the existence or the intent of a GOP "Southern Strategy" even after the chairman of their party's national committee admits it.
it really cracks me up to see republicans on here denying the existence or the intent of a GOP "Southern Strategy" even after the chairman of their party's national committee admits it.
Well, Steele is "street wise" so it may take the trailer park gang a while to catch on to his teachings....