"White southerners have always been deeply racist. Doesn't matter if they were Democrats or Republicans."
Watch me smash another custard pie in your ugly, lying kisser.
Eisenhower received at least one-third of the vote in every state in the Old Confederacy.
The same is true for Nixon in 1960, when the pro-Civil Rights Nixon, who…was representing an Administration that enforced
Brown v. Board, carried Virginia, Tennessee and Florida. ….Republicans picked up their first elected Southern Senate seat in history in a 1960 special election shortly after the election.
In 1964, Goldwater did break through in the Deep South. “
The Southern Strategy Myth and the Lost Majority
“The second trendline in the data is ideology.
To accept
the Southern Strategy myth that race is the dominant reason
why white Southerners would find a home in the GOP, you have to ignore the role of (among other issues) economics, religion, and foreign policy/national security. “
Op.Cit.
Soooo….
why did the South end up in the Republican camp? Not due to the preposterous and slanderous allegations of the Democrats, i.e., that they’re all racists, both the Southern voters and the Republican Party.
Here is the answer in microcosm:
because neither the Southern voter nor the GOP is racist:
a. 1966 Republican Bo Calloway ran against Democrat Lester Maddox, who “gained national attention for refusing to serve blacks in his popular cafeteria near the Georgia Tech campus. Newsmen tipped off about the confrontation reported how restaurant patrons and employees wielded ax handles while Mr. Maddox waved a pistol. …”
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Maddox was endorsed by
Democrat Jimmy Carter in the above governor’s race. When the race was too close to call, the Democrat state legislature gave it to Maddox.
b.1966- Republican Spiro Agnew ran
against Democrat segregationists George Mahoney for governor of Maryland. Agnew enacted some of the first laws in the nation
against race discrimination in public housing. “Agnew signed the state's first open-housing laws and succeeded in getting the repeal of an anti-
miscegenationlaw.”
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c.1966- pro-integrationist Republican Winthrop Rockefeller won Arkansas, replacing
Bill Clinton-pal Orval Faubus.
Not all Democrats were segregationists, but all segregationists were Democrats! And…there were enough of them to demand compliance from the rest of the party.
One would imagine that, in the face of this onslaught of facts that they can’t refute, the Democrat voters would change their support.
They won’t because they can’t: for the weak mind, indoctrination is indelible.
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