JimBowie1958
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The Southern Strategy was not a reversal of racism, that would have lost the majority of the Repoublican party leadership who almost unanimously supported Civil Rights for blacks.Indeed, in his 1968 campaign and afterward, Nixon used coded language, political symbolism and court interventions as signals to southern white voters.
The Southern Strategy was one of Morality where Nixon campaigned on moral issues and changes in our Christian culture to a secular culture.
All the Democrats that supported segregation in the 1950s and signed the Southern Manifesto remained Democrats till the day they died except for Strom Thurmon.
The are no codes, or dog whistles either.
Liberals are simply conflating a cultural strategy with racism.