CDZ Switching Places

[Tommy Tainant]

I read a lot of threads where recent history is discussed and in particular the civil rights campaign.

Those on the right make great play that the Democratic party of the time, particularly in the south, were a big obstacle to fairness and progress.

Those on the left counter this by stating that both parties have changed in the past 50 years and that the Republicans are now the party of racism.

I will be honest here and state that this is generally evident in the actions of both parties. Certainly on USMB the posters with the most racist tendencies are on the right and are big fans of trump.

Now its unusual for parties to switch like this.
My question is when did this happen and what caused the shift ?

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

It didn't. It's a tall tale.

 

[Olde Europe]

I read a lot of threads where recent history is discussed and in particular the civil rights campaign.

Those on the right make great play that the Democratic party of the time, particularly in the south, were a big obstacle to fairness and progress.

Those on the left counter this by stating that both parties have changed in the past 50 years and that the Republicans are now the party of racism.

I will be honest here and state that this is generally evident in the actions of both parties. Certainly on USMB the posters with the most racist tendencies are on the right and are big fans of trump.

Now its unusual for parties to switch like this.
My question is when did this happen and what caused the shift ?

It happened predominantly during the 1950s and 60s, and shook itself out over the following decades. It was always more a north-south split - as put into evidence by solid majorities in the North voting for the Civil Rights legislation of the 1960s, and near-unanimous opposition in the South.

Whatever, the Democrats in the 1960s adopted the Civil Rights into their platform. They were set to lose the segregationist South, and Republicans conceived of, and implemented, the "Southern Strategy". Easy enough to see it worked. The first half of the 1900s, the South was solidly, overwhelmingly Democratic, at the end of the century it was about as solidly Republican. The Party of Stupid is, by necessity, also the Party of Racism.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

I read a lot of threads where recent history is discussed and in particular the civil rights campaign.

Those on the right make great play that the Democratic party of the time, particularly in the south, were a big obstacle to fairness and progress.

Those on the left counter this by stating that both parties have changed in the past 50 years and that the Republicans are now the party of racism.

I will be honest here and state that this is generally evident in the actions of both parties. Certainly on USMB the posters with the most racist tendencies are on the right and are big fans of trump.

Now its unusual for parties to switch like this.
My question is when did this happen and what caused the shift ?

The Democrats are who make politics about race.
Identity politics is a form of hate.
The Democrats have gone all the way to the supreme court to defend their racial segregation laws against African Americans.
The Democrats have gone all the way to the Supreme Court to deny white students admission into college.
The Democrats have gone all the way to the Supreme Court to deny white workers employment and to deny them promotions.
The Democratic Party has all of the race based political organizations and hate groups.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

I read a lot of threads where recent history is discussed and in particular the civil rights campaign.

Those on the right make great play that the Democratic party of the time, particularly in the south, were a big obstacle to fairness and progress.

Those on the left counter this by stating that both parties have changed in the past 50 years and that the Republicans are now the party of racism.

I will be honest here and state that this is generally evident in the actions of both parties. Certainly on USMB the posters with the most racist tendencies are on the right and are big fans of trump.

Now its unusual for parties to switch like this.
My question is when did this happen and what caused the shift ?

We forgave England after the American Revolution.
We forgave Japan after WWll.
We forgave Germany after WWll.
But, the Left will not give-up their hatred for Southerners even 150 years after the Civil War ended.
Hollywood is the world's window to America, and they perpetuate tired stereotypes of not just Southerners, but really all of the Heartland Americans who live between LA and NYC.
Ask yourself have you ever seen a positive portrayal of Southerner?
It's not because they are horrible people, it is because Hollywood/Press Left are stuck on their contempt for them.
The dirty truth about the American Left is that they loath Wasps, and the South has the most of them.
Statistics show that the Democrat dominated cities have the most hate crimes and the most interracial crimes. State hate crime stats show that the South is not where the most of the hate crimes occur.

The 10 states with the most hate crimes per capita are:

1. Washington, D.C., with 13.4 incidents per 100,000 people.
2. Massachusetts, with 5.77 incidents.
3. New Jersey, with 5.76.
4. Oregon, with 5.25.
5. Kentucky, with 4.33.
6. Maine, with 4.14.
7. North Dakota, with 4.05.
8. Connecticut, with 3.91.
9. Colorado, with 3.73.
10. Minnesota, with 3.71.

[/QUOTE]
Remember, your window to America is filtered through Hollywood.
It's not reality, but it's all that you know.

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[Coyote]

I read a lot of threads where recent history is discussed and in particular the civil rights campaign.

Those on the right make great play that the Democratic party of the time, particularly in the south, were a big obstacle to fairness and progress.

Those on the left counter this by stating that both parties have changed in the past 50 years and that the Republicans are now the party of racism.

I will be honest here and state that this is generally evident in the actions of both parties. Certainly on USMB the posters with the most racist tendencies are on the right and are big fans of trump.

Now its unusual for parties to switch like this.
My question is when did this happen and what caused the shift ?

Political parties are not political ideologies. When people in the south, a huge Dem stronghold, felt let down by the Dem embracing of Civil Rights, they presented the GOP with a unique opportunity to take south, a significant electoral block, and they took...welcoming them with open arms and adjusting their platform to fit. You are seeing a similar movement with blue collar whites, feeling disenfranchised with the Dems (who have largely ignored there needs in recent times) now moving towards the populist brand of Republicanism that Trump represents. Likewise, many minorities feel that the Dems have offered them tent space and have gravitated there.

Parties are pragmatic and seek to increase their power.

This is why it is so retarded of political revisionists who try to insist that the parties of yesterday are the same as the parties today.

 

[Crepitus]

I read a lot of threads where recent history is discussed and in particular the civil rights campaign.

Those on the right make great play that the Democratic party of the time, particularly in the south, were a big obstacle to fairness and progress.

Those on the left counter this by stating that both parties have changed in the past 50 years and that the Republicans are now the party of racism.

I will be honest here and state that this is generally evident in the actions of both parties. Certainly on USMB the posters with the most racist tendencies are on the right and are big fans of trump.

Now its unusual for parties to switch like this.
My question is when did this happen and what caused the shift ?

Political parties are not political ideologies. When people in the south, a huge Dem stronghold, felt let down by the Dem embracing of Civil Rights, they presented the GOP with a unique opportunity to take south, a significant electoral block, and they took...welcoming them with open arms and adjusting their platform to fit. You are seeing a similar movement with blue collar whites, feeling disenfranchised with the Dems (who have largely ignored there needs in recent times) now moving towards the populist brand of Republicanism that Trump represents. Likewise, many minorities feel that the Dems have offered them tent space and have gravitated there.

Parties are pragmatic and seek to increase their power.

This is why it is so retarded of political revisionists who try to insist that the parties of yesterday are the same as the parties today.

You mean when white people in the south felt let down by the Democrats embracing the civil rights movement.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

I read a lot of threads where recent history is discussed and in particular the civil rights campaign.

Those on the right make great play that the Democratic party of the time, particularly in the south, were a big obstacle to fairness and progress.

Those on the left counter this by stating that both parties have changed in the past 50 years and that the Republicans are now the party of racism.

I will be honest here and state that this is generally evident in the actions of both parties. Certainly on USMB the posters with the most racist tendencies are on the right and are big fans of trump.

Now its unusual for parties to switch like this.
My question is when did this happen and what caused the shift ?

Political parties are not political ideologies. When people in the south, a huge Dem stronghold, felt let down by the Dem embracing of Civil Rights, they presented the GOP with a unique opportunity to take south, a significant electoral block, and they took...welcoming them with open arms and adjusting their platform to fit. You are seeing a similar movement with blue collar whites, feeling disenfranchised with the Dems (who have largely ignored there needs in recent times) now moving towards the populist brand of Republicanism that Trump represents. Likewise, many minorities feel that the Dems have offered them tent space and have gravitated there.

Parties are pragmatic and seek to increase their power.

This is why it is so retarded of political revisionists who try to insist that the parties of yesterday are the same as the parties today.

The Democrats are who make politics about race

 

[Coyote]

I read a lot of threads where recent history is discussed and in particular the civil rights campaign.

Those on the right make great play that the Democratic party of the time, particularly in the south, were a big obstacle to fairness and progress.

Those on the left counter this by stating that both parties have changed in the past 50 years and that the Republicans are now the party of racism.

I will be honest here and state that this is generally evident in the actions of both parties. Certainly on USMB the posters with the most racist tendencies are on the right and are big fans of trump.

Now its unusual for parties to switch like this.
My question is when did this happen and what caused the shift ?

Political parties are not political ideologies. When people in the south, a huge Dem stronghold, felt let down by the Dem embracing of Civil Rights, they presented the GOP with a unique opportunity to take south, a significant electoral block, and they took...welcoming them with open arms and adjusting their platform to fit. You are seeing a similar movement with blue collar whites, feeling disenfranchised with the Dems (who have largely ignored there needs in recent times) now moving towards the populist brand of Republicanism that Trump represents. Likewise, many minorities feel that the Dems have offered them tent space and have gravitated there.

Parties are pragmatic and seek to increase their power.

This is why it is so retarded of political revisionists who try to insist that the parties of yesterday are the same as the parties today.

You mean when white people in the south felt let down by the Democrats embracing the civil rights movement.

Yes

 

[Coyote]

I read a lot of threads where recent history is discussed and in particular the civil rights campaign.

Those on the right make great play that the Democratic party of the time, particularly in the south, were a big obstacle to fairness and progress.

Those on the left counter this by stating that both parties have changed in the past 50 years and that the Republicans are now the party of racism.

I will be honest here and state that this is generally evident in the actions of both parties. Certainly on USMB the posters with the most racist tendencies are on the right and are big fans of trump.

Now its unusual for parties to switch like this.
My question is when did this happen and what caused the shift ?

Political parties are not political ideologies. When people in the south, a huge Dem stronghold, felt let down by the Dem embracing of Civil Rights, they presented the GOP with a unique opportunity to take south, a significant electoral block, and they took...welcoming them with open arms and adjusting their platform to fit. You are seeing a similar movement with blue collar whites, feeling disenfranchised with the Dems (who have largely ignored there needs in recent times) now moving towards the populist brand of Republicanism that Trump represents. Likewise, many minorities feel that the Dems have offered them tent space and have gravitated there.

Parties are pragmatic and seek to increase their power.

This is why it is so retarded of political revisionists who try to insist that the parties of yesterday are the same as the parties today.

The Democrats are who make politics about race

They aren't the only ones.

 

[Frankeneinstein]

Those on the right make great play that the Democratic party of the time, particularly in the south, were a big obstacle to fairness and progress.

Those on the left counter this by stating that both parties have changed in the past 50 years and that the Republicans are now the party of racism.

I will be honest here and state that this is generally evident in the actions of both parties. Certainly on USMB the posters with the most racist tendencies are on the right and are big fans of trump.

Now its unusual for parties to switch like this.
My question is when did this happen and what caused the shift ?

There has been no shift tommy, the problem isn't the democratic party but the white liberal elites who have the rest of the party in a choke hold who are only beholden to minorities they can use as a stepping stone, every single time a minority bucks the party he or she is unmercilessly vilified, just look at the past primary, the party is entirely dependent on minority support but those that benefit are the white elites at the top of the pyramid, they're should very rarely be a white candidate on the national stage...
I come from a family that owes much [if not everything] to the democratic party, but that party is almost completely gone from the political landscape, right now the party elite sees the writing on the wall and is attempting to replace black voters [who are going the way of working class whites] with an unlimited supply of hispanic voters which is why they are weaponizing the illegal immigration problem...

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Those on the right make great play that the Democratic party of the time, particularly in the south, were a big obstacle to fairness and progress.

Those on the left counter this by stating that both parties have changed in the past 50 years and that the Republicans are now the party of racism.

I will be honest here and state that this is generally evident in the actions of both parties. Certainly on USMB the posters with the most racist tendencies are on the right and are big fans of trump.

Now its unusual for parties to switch like this.
My question is when did this happen and what caused the shift ?

There has been no shift tommy, the problem isn't the democratic party but the white liberal elites who have the rest of the party in a choke hold who are only beholden to minorities they can use as a stepping stone, every single time a minority bucks the party he or she is unmercilessly vilified, just look at the past primary, the party is entirely dependent on minority support but those that benefit are the white elites at the top of the pyramid, they're should very rarely be a white candidate on the national stage...
I come from a family that owes much [if not everything] to the democratic party, but that party is almost completely gone from the political landscape, right now the party elite sees the writing on the wall and is attempting to replace black voters [who are going the way of working class whites] with an unlimited supply of hispanic voters which is why they are weaponizing the illegal immigration problem...

Politicians appealing to voters shocker !!!!|!

The thing is Frank - all of the racists I see on here are right wing trumpers from the GOP. Obviously not all republicans are racist trash but all racist trash are republicans.

The GOP seems to be a party of elderly white males whereas the Dems seem a lot more integrated. I know there are exceptions to that but overall thats how it looks.

In the Uk the tory party was full of old racists and was incredibly narrow in its make up. Then the more extreme of them upped sticks and joined UKIP where they didnt have to hide their racism. When UKIP combusted they all returned to the tories and voted for Boris.

The US needs more political parties so that voters have a choice. Maybe the dems should change their name to shake off the stigma ?

 

[Gdjjr]

The US needs more political parties so that voters have a choice

The US Party admittance is controlled by the Duopoly-

Maybe the dems should change their name to shake off the stigma ?

They have already bastardized (caused a stigma) to the word liberal.



There is, in reality, not a dimes worth of difference outside the rhetoric used to sell what they sell, (hence Duoploy) which is nothing more than "I'm better qualified to manage you fools" than the other side and to prove it I'll lie and ignore that we BOTH subscribe to the same monetary policy, support the same UNjust Wars, foreign and domestic, and demand you serve us vs the original intent. Nazi Nancy believes an inert piece of paper is alive.
Compassionate conservative Bush the jr says "it's just a goddamn piece of paper- neither sides *followers*, nor their "leaders" believes in the words in the Declaration of Independence so they CAN'T live them- they can however rely, heavily, on lip service to divide and conquer into 2 groups and 2 groups only- tools or enemies.

 

[Coyote]

Those on the right make great play that the Democratic party of the time, particularly in the south, were a big obstacle to fairness and progress.

Those on the left counter this by stating that both parties have changed in the past 50 years and that the Republicans are now the party of racism.

I will be honest here and state that this is generally evident in the actions of both parties. Certainly on USMB the posters with the most racist tendencies are on the right and are big fans of trump.

Now its unusual for parties to switch like this.
My question is when did this happen and what caused the shift ?

There has been no shift tommy, the problem isn't the democratic party but the white liberal elites who have the rest of the party in a choke hold who are only beholden to minorities they can use as a stepping stone, every single time a minority bucks the party he or she is unmercilessly vilified, just look at the past primary, the party is entirely dependent on minority support but those that benefit are the white elites at the top of the pyramid, they're should very rarely be a white candidate on the national stage...
I come from a family that owes much [if not everything] to the democratic party, but that party is almost completely gone from the political landscape, right now the party elite sees the writing on the wall and is attempting to replace black voters [who are going the way of working class whites] with an unlimited supply of hispanic voters which is why they are weaponizing the illegal immigration problem...

Politicians appealing to voters shocker !!!!|!

The thing is Frank - all of the racists I see on here are right wing trumpers from the GOP. Obviously not all republicans are racist trash but all racist trash are republicans.

The GOP seems to be a party of elderly white males whereas the Dems seem a lot more integrated. I know there are exceptions to that but overall thats how it looks.

In the Uk the tory party was full of old racists and was incredibly narrow in its make up. Then the more extreme of them upped sticks and joined UKIP where they didnt have to hide their racism. When UKIP combusted they all returned to the tories and voted for Boris.

The US needs more political parties so that voters have a choice. Maybe the dems should change their name to shake off the stigma ?

Right now, the Republican Party is becoming a lot more white and a lot more male. You have significant and important group of white blue collar men across America who feel abandoned, who see minorities getting things they feel they don’t get, and the Republicans saw an opportunity, just like they did when the south turned from Dem to Repub.

The thing is...they can no longer claim they do not engage in the politics of race. They are actively doing so now, only it is white they have adopted.

 

[Coyote]

Those on the right make great play that the Democratic party of the time, particularly in the south, were a big obstacle to fairness and progress.

Those on the left counter this by stating that both parties have changed in the past 50 years and that the Republicans are now the party of racism.

I will be honest here and state that this is generally evident in the actions of both parties. Certainly on USMB the posters with the most racist tendencies are on the right and are big fans of trump.

Now its unusual for parties to switch like this.
My question is when did this happen and what caused the shift ?

There has been no shift tommy, the problem isn't the democratic party but the white liberal elites who have the rest of the party in a choke hold who are only beholden to minorities they can use as a stepping stone, every single time a minority bucks the party he or she is unmercilessly vilified, just look at the past primary, the party is entirely dependent on minority support but those that benefit are the white elites at the top of the pyramid, they're should very rarely be a white candidate on the national stage...
I come from a family that owes much [if not everything] to the democratic party, but that party is almost completely gone from the political landscape, right now the party elite sees the writing on the wall and is attempting to replace black voters [who are going the way of working class whites] with an unlimited supply of hispanic voters which is why they are weaponizing the illegal immigration problem...

Politicians appealing to voters shocker !!!!|!

The thing is Frank - all of the racists I see on here are right wing trumpers from the GOP. Obviously not all republicans are racist trash but all racist trash are republicans.

The GOP seems to be a party of elderly white males whereas the Dems seem a lot more integrated. I know there are exceptions to that but overall thats how it looks.

In the Uk the tory party was full of old racists and was incredibly narrow in its make up. Then the more extreme of them upped sticks and joined UKIP where they didnt have to hide their racism. When UKIP combusted they all returned to the tories and voted for Boris.

The US needs more political parties so that voters have a choice. Maybe the dems should change their name to shake off the stigma ?

On your last paragraph, totally agree!

 

[2aguy]

I read a lot of threads where recent history is discussed and in particular the civil rights campaign.

Those on the right make great play that the Democratic party of the time, particularly in the south, were a big obstacle to fairness and progress.

Those on the left counter this by stating that both parties have changed in the past 50 years and that the Republicans are now the party of racism.

I will be honest here and state that this is generally evident in the actions of both parties. Certainly on USMB the posters with the most racist tendencies are on the right and are big fans of trump.

Now its unusual for parties to switch like this.
My question is when did this happen and what caused the shift ?

It didn't happen, there was no shift. The democrat party fought the Civil Rights movement to the last breath.....Lyndon Johnson realized at the end that if they didn't change their position, they would never win national election again, so Johnson, the one of the biggest racists in the country, finally signed on to the last 2 Civil Rights acts, having fought every other one, including the anti-lynching laws.

The democrat party also represents increasing the size and power of the central government.....this is the only way to enact racism....real racism.....racists of all colors, black, brown and white, want this power....so they have all come together in the democrat party, sharing out that power and using it to punish the other racial groups.....and to horde the benefits from government power......it is an alliance of racists...

If you doubt this...why is it that all of the major power groups in the democrat party are openly racist?

La Raza...hispanic racists.

The Congressional Black Caucus....black racists....

The Nation of Islam....Black racists

Every leader of the democrat party have been openly racist or embraced open racists......

bill clinton openly embraced the worst segregationists of the democrat party including orval faubus and william fullbright

barak obama......good friend to louis farakhan, open racist, jeremiah wright, open racist......al sharpton....open racist and good friend of obama....

The party is based on racism......using racism as a means to get power and as a shield to protect them from criticism.....

 

[2aguy]

Those on the right make great play that the Democratic party of the time, particularly in the south, were a big obstacle to fairness and progress.

Those on the left counter this by stating that both parties have changed in the past 50 years and that the Republicans are now the party of racism.

I will be honest here and state that this is generally evident in the actions of both parties. Certainly on USMB the posters with the most racist tendencies are on the right and are big fans of trump.

Now its unusual for parties to switch like this.
My question is when did this happen and what caused the shift ?

There has been no shift tommy, the problem isn't the democratic party but the white liberal elites who have the rest of the party in a choke hold who are only beholden to minorities they can use as a stepping stone, every single time a minority bucks the party he or she is unmercilessly vilified, just look at the past primary, the party is entirely dependent on minority support but those that benefit are the white elites at the top of the pyramid, they're should very rarely be a white candidate on the national stage...
I come from a family that owes much [if not everything] to the democratic party, but that party is almost completely gone from the political landscape, right now the party elite sees the writing on the wall and is attempting to replace black voters [who are going the way of working class whites] with an unlimited supply of hispanic voters which is why they are weaponizing the illegal immigration problem...

Politicians appealing to voters shocker !!!!|!

The thing is Frank - all of the racists I see on here are right wing trumpers from the GOP. Obviously not all republicans are racist trash but all racist trash are republicans.

The GOP seems to be a party of elderly white males whereas the Dems seem a lot more integrated. I know there are exceptions to that but overall thats how it looks.

In the Uk the tory party was full of old racists and was incredibly narrow in its make up. Then the more extreme of them upped sticks and joined UKIP where they didnt have to hide their racism. When UKIP combusted they all returned to the tories and voted for Boris.

The US needs more political parties so that voters have a choice. Maybe the dems should change their name to shake off the stigma ?

Right now, the Republican Party is becoming a lot more white and a lot more male. You have significant and important group of white blue collar men across America who feel abandoned, who see minorities getting things they feel they don’t get, and the Republicans saw an opportunity, just like they did when the south turned from Dem to Repub.

The thing is...they can no longer claim they do not engage in the politics of race. They are actively doing so now, only it is white they have adopted.

You mean like Donald Trump reaching out to Black Americans and getting more support from them than any other Republican? Appointing many minorities and gays throughout his cabinet? And Trump has over 95% support among Republicans while he does it?

The lie that the Republican party is racist, or that Trump is racist is simply a desparate tactic.....to try to keep minorities from defecting from the democrat party...a party that only cares about Blacks and Hispanics for one day every two years.......election day.

 

[2aguy]

I read a lot of threads where recent history is discussed and in particular the civil rights campaign.

Those on the right make great play that the Democratic party of the time, particularly in the south, were a big obstacle to fairness and progress.

Those on the left counter this by stating that both parties have changed in the past 50 years and that the Republicans are now the party of racism.

I will be honest here and state that this is generally evident in the actions of both parties. Certainly on USMB the posters with the most racist tendencies are on the right and are big fans of trump.

Now its unusual for parties to switch like this.
My question is when did this happen and what caused the shift ?

It happened predominantly during the 1950s and 60s, and shook itself out over the following decades. It was always more a north-south split - as put into evidence by solid majorities in the North voting for the Civil Rights legislation of the 1960s, and near-unanimous opposition in the South.

Whatever, the Democrats in the 1960s adopted the Civil Rights into their platform. They were set to lose the segregationist South, and Republicans conceived of, and implemented, the "Southern Strategy". Easy enough to see it worked. The first half of the 1900s, the South was solidly, overwhelmingly Democratic, at the end of the century it was about as solidly Republican. The Party of Stupid is, by necessity, also the Party of Racism.

The Southern Strategy is a lie......it didn't happen....it is based on one article where the story was even taken out of context, where the guy who had proposed the Southern Strategy was told, "no thanks," but has since been used to bash Republicans.....

see page 4, bottom of first column...this was where the lie about the Southern strategy came from....I can't grab a quote or i would have simply quoted it.....again, page 4 bottom of first column...

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/books/phillips-southern.pdf

The explanation...

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Nixon’s Southern Strategy: The Democrat-Lie Keeping Their Control Over the Black Community | Black Quill and Ink


Ken Raymond
Jun 2011

Richard Nixon’s “Southern Strategy”, which the democrats say is the reason black people had to support them during the 1960′s–is a lie.

And it’s probably the biggest lie that’s been told to the blacks since Woodrow Wilson segregated the federal government after getting the NAACP to support him.
After talking with black voters across the country about why they overwhelmingly supports democrats, the common answer that’s emerges is the Southern Strategy.

I’ve heard of the Southern Strategy too. But since it doesn’t make a difference in how I decide to vote, I never bothered to research it. But apparently it still influences how many African Americans vote today. That makes it worth investigating.

For those that might be unfamiliar with the Southern Strategy, I’ll briefly review the story. After the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, most blacks registered as democrats and it’s been that way ever since.

And that doesn’t make any sense when you consider the fact that it was the democrats that established, and fought for, Jim Crow laws and segregation in the first place. And the republicans have a very noble history of fighting for the civil rights of blacks.

The reason black people moved to the democrats, given by media pundits and educational institutions for the decades, is that when republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon ran for president in 1968, he employed a racist plan that’s now infamously called the Southern Strategy.

The Southern Strategy basically means Nixon allegedly used hidden code words that appealed to the racists within the Democrat party and throughout the south. This secret language caused a seismic shift in the electoral landscape that moved the evil racist democrats into the republican camp and the noble-hearted republicans into the democrat camp.

And here’s what I found, Nixon did not use a plan to appeal to racist white voters.

First, let’s look at the presidential candidates of 1968. Richard Nixon was the republican candidate; Hubert Humphrey was the democrat nominee; and George Wallace was a third party candidate.

Remember George Wallace? Wallace was the democrat governor of Alabama from 1963 until 1967. And it was Wallace that ordered the Eugene “Bull” Connor, and the police department, to attack Dr. Martin Luther King

Jr. and 2,500 protesters in Montgomery , Alabama in 1965. And it was Governor Wallace that ordered a blockade at the admissions office at the University of Alabama to prevent blacks from enrolling in 1963.

Governor Wallace was a true racist and a determined segregationist. And he ran as the nominee from the American Independent Party, which was he founded.

Richard Nixon wrote about the 1968 campaign in his book RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon originally published in 1978.

In his book, Nixon wrote this about campaigning in the south, “The deep south had to be virtually conceded to George Wallace. I could not match him there without compromising on civil rights, which I would not do.”

The media coverage of the 1968 presidential race also showed that Nixon was in favor of the Civil Rights and would not compromise on that issue. For example, in an article published in theWashington Post on September 15, 1968 headlined “Nixon Sped Integration, Wallace says” Wallace declared that Nixon agreed with Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren and played a role in ”the destruction of public school system.” Wallace pledged to restore the school system, in the same article, by giving it back to the states ”lock, stock, and barrel.”

This story, as well as Nixon’s memoirs and other news stories during that campaign, shows that Nixon was very clear about his position on civil rights. And if Nixon was used code words only racists could hear, evidently George Wallace couldn’t hear it.

Among the southern states, George Wallace won Arkansas , Mississippi , Alabama , Georgia and Louisiana . Nixon won North Carolina , South Carolina , Florida , Virginia , and Tennessee . Winning those states were part of Nixon’s plan.

“I would not concede the Carolina ‘s, Florida , or Virginia or the states around the rim of the south,”Nixon wrote. ”These states were a part of my plan.”

At that time, the entire southern region was the poorest in the country. The south consistently lagged behind the rest of the United States in income. And according to the

“U.S. Regional Growth and Convergence,” by Kris James Mitchener and Ian W. McLean, per capita income for southerners was almost half as much as it was for Americans in other regions.

Nixon won those states strictly on economic issues. He focused on increasing tariffs on foreign imports to protect the manufacturing and agriculture industries of those states. Some southern elected officials agreed to support him for the sake of their economies, including South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond.

“I had been consulting privately with Thurmond for several months and I was convinced that he’d join my campaign if he were satisfied on the two issues of paramount concern to him: national defense and tariffs against textile imports to protect South Carolina ‘s position in the industry.”Nixon wrote in his memoirs.

In fact, Nixon made it clear to the southern elected officials that he would not compromise on the civil rights issue.

“On civil rights, Thurmond knew my position was very different from his,” Nixon wrote. “I was for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and he was against it. Although he disagreed with me, he respected my sincerity and candor.”

The same scenario played out among elected officials and voters in other southern states won by Nixon. They laid their feelings aside and supported him because of his economic platform’”not because Nixon sent messages on a frequency only racists can hear.

On the Southern Strategy lie itself......

Nixon’s Southern Strategy: The Democrat-Lie Keeping Their Control Over the Black Community | Black Quill and Ink

Believe it or not, the entire myth was created by an unknown editor at the New York Times who didn’t do his job and read a story he was given to edit.

On May 17, 1970, the New York Times published an article written by James Boyd. The headline, written by our unknown editor, was “Nixon’s Southern Strategy: It’s All in the Charts.”

The article was about a very controversial political analyst named Kevin Phillips. Phillips believed that everyone voted according to their ethnic background, not according to their individual beliefs. And all a candidate had to do is frame their message according to whatever moves a particular ethnic group.

Phillips offered his services to the Nixon campaign. But if our unknown editor had bothered to read the story completely, he would’ve seen that Phillip’s and his theory was completely rejected!

Boyd wrote in his article, “Though Phillips’s ideas for an aggressive anti-liberal campaign strategy that would hasten defection of the working-class democrats to the republicans did not prevail in the 1968 campaign, he won the respect John Mitchell.” (Mitchell was a well-known Washington insider at the time).

A lazy, negligent editor partially read the story. And wrote a headline for it that attributed Nixon’s campaign success–to a plan he rejected.

In fact, Phillips isn’t even mentioned in Nixon’s memoirs.

Is all of this the result of a negligent copy editor at the New York Times? Or did they purposely work with the Democrat Party to create this myth? That has crossed my mind and it’s certainly not beyond the realm of possibility.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

Now its unusual for parties to switch like this.
My question is when did this happen and what caused the shift ?

It didn't.

That's a lie that the Democrats use to cover for the fact that they are still the party of racism. Their racism has simply taken a different form than it formerly had.

 

[Olde Europe]

[...] The US needs more political parties so that voters have a choice. Maybe the dems should change their name to shake off the stigma ?

On your last paragraph, totally agree!

The parties participating in the last presidential election. On top of the usual suspects ...

• Democratic Party
• Republican Party

... there were:

• America's Party
• American Solidarity Party
• Approval Voting Party
• Constitution Party
• Constitution Party of Idaho
• Green Party
• Independent American Party
• Legal Marijuana Now Party
• Libertarian Party
• Liberty Union Party
• Natural Law Party
• Nutrition Party
• Party for Socialism and Liberation
• Peace and Freedom
• Prohibition Party
• Socialist Equality Party
• Socialist Party USA
• Socialist Workers Party
• United States Pacifist Party
• Veterans Party of America
• Workers World Party

How many more are needed?