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Did your nose grow when you posted that , pinnochio?Assertion: The Southern Strategy is a massive conspiracy theory.
THe contention made is that for over 50 years, the republicans have been speaking in the open, using secrete\ "code" or "Dog whistles" that only the massive white racist population, which seems to be at least tens of millions of people, know is actually the political candidates letting the racist voters know that the candidates are racist too, and will... govern racistly in favor of white people.
Now, for 50 years, the republicans have never actually done that, or delivered on those secret promises, but the theory just ignores that.
It is nothing but a massive smear campaign against good people, people who are sick and tired of being called names, by race baiting a-holes.
The Theory is that the republicans have been pandering to the racist whites, since the dems flipped on segregation back in the 60s.
Your side always says that.
If challenged, you normally get very evasive, but it grilled you finally can be forced to admit that all you have to support your vile accusations,
if one interview, years after the fact with lee atwater, and the smoke and mirrors of "dog whistles".
It is utter bullshit. You've got nothing.
A higher percentage of Republicans voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act than Democrats. Both a larger number of Democrats voted for it and against it because Democrats had a significant majority in Congress in the time. However, Republicans voted for it by a higher percentage.
80% of Republicans in the House and 82% in the Senate voted for it.
69% of Democrats in the House and 63% in the Senate voted for it.
1964 Congress:
Senate: 68 Democrats and 32 Republicans
House: 253 Democrats and 177 Republicans
Original Housed version:
Cloture in the Senate:
- Democratic Party: 152β96 (61β39%)
- Republican Party: 138β34 (80β20%)
The Senate version:
- Democratic Party: 44β23 (66β34%)
- Republican Party: 27β6 (82β18%)
The Senate version, voted on by the House:
- Democratic Party: 46β21 (69β31%)
- Republican Party: 27β6 (82β18%)
- Democratic Party: 153β91 (63β37%)
- Republican Party: 136β35 (80β20%)
A telling break down is between the Southern delegation and the Northern one.
The House of Representatives:[26]
The Senate:[26]
- Northern: 281β32 (90β10%)
- Southern: 8β94 (8β92%)
By party and region[edit]
- Northern: 72β6 (92β8%)
- Southern: 1β21 (5β95%) (Ralph Yarborough of Texas was the only southerner to vote in favor in the Senate)
The House of Representatives:[26]
The Senate:[26]
- Southern Democrats: 8β87 (7β93%) (four Representatives from Texas, two from Tennessee, Claude Pepper of Florida and Charles L. Weltner of Georgia voted in favor)
- Southern Republicans: 0β10 (0β100%)
- Northern Democrats: 145β9 (94β6%)
- Northern Republicans: 138β24 (85β15%)
- Southern Democrats: 1β20 (5β95%) (only Ralph Yarborough of Texas voted in favor)
- Southern Republicans: 0β1 (0β100%) (John Tower of Texas)
- Northern Democrats: 45β1 (98β2%) (only Robert Byrd of West Virginia voted against)
- Northern Republicans: 27β5 (84β16%)
Overall, Republicans still voted for it in a higher percentage and it's only when you start selectively manipulating the statistics in a specific manner that you can paint a different picture.
So, 95% of Southern Democrats voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Why would this make racist Democrats suddenly leave the party? Did all the big government, high tax Democrats become small government, low tax, fiscally conservative Republicans and vice versa as both sides completely switched teams over one single issue?
I don't really care about the specific breakdown by region and party. It was in Wiki.
The point is the North mostly vote for it regardless of party, and the South mostly voted against it regardless of party.
Both parties voted for it, by strong majorities.
The actual racists, at least the white ones, were marginalized in national politics with the dems flipping on the issue and joining the republicans in supporting equality for blacks.
The pretense that one of the major parties has been secretly working against it's stated platforms of the last 50 years, and communicating by secret code with tens of millions of racists voters, that they are racist like them, even though they can't yet give them the racist policies that the racists want, but hey we still want you to vote for us, because...
Well, the SSCT doesn't say why. Some how, racist are so racist that just coded rhetoric is enough to keep them happy, for generations.
lol!!!
Who was voting makes no fucking difference
Only the people at teh top of the party
THat was the strategy. As to whether or not it worked no one knows.
Whoooooosh
WHy you think the voters matter I have no idea. They don't set strategy. Political operatives like Atwater do
You fucking dolt
Joe the Plumber doesn't get a say on the RNC platform
Atwater was talking shit twenty years after the facts.
What policies or actions did nixon take to "appeal to racists"?