The thread premise is a lie.
The Southern Strategy was – and still is – a fact; used by Republicans to attract Southern racists and bigots to the Party:
‘Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman tacitly admitted the racial basis of the southern strategy. In prepared remarks to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Mehlman acknowledged that “some Republicans [were] trying to benefit politically from racial polarization,” adding that “we were wrong” and calling it “not healthy for the country for the political parties to be so racially polarized.”’
Southern Strategy BEFORE 1960: THE UNSTABLE DEMOCRATIC PARTY COALITION 1960 TO 1964: RACIAL ISSUES REEMERGE, AND REPUBLICANS MOVE TO THE RIGHT 1965 TO 1972: YEARS OF TURMOIL AND NIXON’S SOUTHERN STRATEGY 1969 AND LATER: THE SOUTHERN STRATEGY EVOLVES, BUT CONTINUES BIBLIOGRAPHY Source for...
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The Southern Strategy continues to this day, as expressed by white grievance politics and racist replacement theory.