"Earlier this week, the Republican National Committee
hired three new staffers to assist with African American outreach. They will have their work cut out for them. Donald Trump’s
average level of black support from four recent national polls is 2 percent, and a July NBC/
Wall Street Journalbattleground poll
showed Trump getting exactly 0 percent support among African American voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania. And the candidate is not helping his own cause. He has demonstrated a steady penchant for resurrecting racially divisive campaign tactics of the past, tactics that simultaneously ignored black voters and used race as a wedge to attract disgruntled white voters in the South.
acknowledged the party’s “Southern Strategy” and directly apologized: “I am here as Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong.”
In 2010, Michael Steele—the first black head of the RNC—admitted in a talk with students at DePaul University that Republicans had given minorities little reason to vote for them: “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.”
Nixon did NOT rum his campaign on a civil rights platform.
His platform message was "restoration of law and order."
You are attempting to make it appear otherwise.
The fact is that "wedge" issues such as the introduction of affirmative action and school desegregation drove the flight to the Republican party.
Nixon took office on the heels of some of the worst race riots in history. He had NO CHOICE except to do something to change the climate or more anarchy in the streets would have negatively impacted the perception of his administration.
But he was absolutely NOT a known primarily for being a supporter and advocate for civil rights.
He did what he had to for political reasons.
I lived it because I PERSONALLY was bused to a predominately white secondary school in California in the 60's with approximately 60 or so other black students, and I saw and ecperienced the hostility first hand of objectionable "upper middle class" white people ranging from apathetic school administrators who were aghast at the presence of newly arrived black students, to parents who were furious over us even being there.
And the worst of it was that we all HATED being there as well.
And that was in so called "liberal" California. Resistance and hostility was much more obvious in Southern states.
Like it or not, there WAS a southern strategy. Then and now. Furthermore, you actually believe that a more affluent, more educated southern voter is the backbone of todays Republican party?
Then explain why the majority of rural, lower income white SOUTHERN voters who in the past were Democrats have over time redirected their loyaly to the Republican party...(except for an anomaly in 1976 when Carter was elected?)
kids who find one phrase, misunderstand it, and then repeat it endlessly because they think it makes them look brilliant are funny.
