Show me where Barry Goldwater said that, or admit that you are a filthy liar.
Where did he ever claim Goldwater said that?
Goldwater did say let the states decide on their own Civil Rights
We were talking about Barry Goldwater and the republican party. No republican I know of, opposed the Civil Rights Bill that we were talking about, as "overreach" while supporting segregation and/or Jim Crow.
It was certainly never the platform of the Party.
If he was not talking about Goldwater, then who was he talking about, and why? Perhaps he should have explained if he was completely changing the subject and why.
If he was.
Barry Goldwater voted against Civil Rights and campaigned in the south for States Rights.
That is why he won those states against Democrat LBJ
Goldwater took S Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.
Up til then, they were solid Democratic
Yes, the pro-racist policies of the Dems, gave the dems a machine like lock on the South, and when they finally gave up on that, they lost that lock.
Putting the South into the possibility of play.
Goldwater's concerns about the bill's overreach, likely was appealing to some of those racists, who might have crossed party lines for that.
But Goldwater was not pandering to them, the way the dems did, with actual racist policies, and the republicans certainly never did.
The Southern Strategy, as you libs paint it, is a Big Lie.
Hell, IM2 sort of admitted it, when he pointed out that blacks started switching parties UNDER FDR, when the dems were still supporting Jim Crow.