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I have two old links to articles...both on debunking the myth of the Southern Strategy.....one used to go to Black Quill and Ink...it now goes to a japanese website, or Korean...not sure exactly which...and another link....on the same topic goes to the same website...
What is going on....anyone know?
Here are the links and the actual articles.....luckily I copied the relevant portions I use....both links now to to the Japanese/Korean or Chinese websites....
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What is going on....anyone know?
Here are the links and the actual articles.....luckily I copied the relevant portions I use....both links now to to the Japanese/Korean or Chinese websites....
Believe it or not, the entire myth was created by an unknown editor at the New York Times who didnât 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 âNixonâs Southern Strategy: Itâs All in the Charts.â
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 wouldâve seen that Phillipâs and his theory was completely rejected!
Boyd wrote in his article, âThough Phillipsâs 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.â (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 Nixonâs campaign successâto a plan he rejected.
In fact, Phillips isnât even mentioned in Nixonâs 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 itâs certainly not beyond the realm of possibility.
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Nixonâs Southern Strategy: The Democrat-Lie Keeping Their Control Over the Black Community | Black Quill and Ink
Ken Raymond
Jun 2011
Richard Nixonâs âSouthern Strategyâ, which the democrats say is the reason black people had to support them during the 1960â˛sâis a lie.
And itâs probably the biggest lie thatâs 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 thatâs emerges is the Southern Strategy.
Iâve heard of the Southern Strategy too. But since it doesnât 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, Iâll briefly review the story. After the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, most blacks registered as democrats and itâs been that way ever since.
And that doesnât 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 thatâs 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 hereâs what I found, Nixon did not use a plan to appeal to racist white voters.
First, letâs 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 âBullâ 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, âThe 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.â
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 âNixon Sped Integration, Wallace saysâ Wallace declared that Nixon agreed with Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren and played a role in âthe destruction of public school system.â Wallace pledged to restore the school system, in the same article, by giving it back to the states âlock, stock, and barrel.â
This story, as well as Nixonâs 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 couldnât 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 Nixonâs plan.
âI would not concede the Carolina âs, Florida , or Virginia or the states around the rim of the south,âNixon wrote. âThese states were a part of my plan.â
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
âU.S. Regional Growth and Convergence,â 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.
âI had been consulting privately with Thurmond for several months and I was convinced that heâd 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 âs position in the industry.âNixon 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.
âOn civil rights, Thurmond knew my position was very different from his,â Nixon wrote. âI was for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and he was against it. Although he disagreed with me, he respected my sincerity and candor.â
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 platformâânot because Nixon sent messages on a frequency only racists can hear.