Time to give you another spanking.......you know it hurts me to have to do this.....but.....
noblesse oblige....
1. The basic “Southern Strategy” myth, popularized by Kevin Phillips in the early 1970s, goes like this: under LBJ’s leadership, Democrats nobly and self-sacrificingly supported civil rights [1946-1965], giving an opening to opportunistic Republicans to crack the Democratic Solid South; following the support given by voters in some Deep South states to Goldwater in 1964, Nixon (formerly a supporter of civil rights) developed a “Southern Strategy” to use
coded appeals to southern whites, enabling him to win the 1968 election; and everything the GOP has accomplished since 1968 is tainted by a continuous reliance on that same strategy to keep white southerners in the fold.
But the reality is quite different from the myth.
2. At the center of the Southern Strategy myth is the idea that Republicans used
the race card to seduce Democratic voters in the South into leaving their natural partisan home.
The truth, … is the opposite: the growth of GOP support among white Southerners was steady and mostly gradual from 1928 to 2010, … What retarded the Southern switch from the Democrats to the GOP was a combination of party loyalties dating back to Reconstruction and
the Democrats’ use of racial issues. In other words,
if you take race out of the picture, it’s likely that white Southerners would have switched parties earlier and in greater numbers. “
The Southern Strategy Myth and the Lost Majority
3. Unable to comprehend that
Southern Americans are not the racists that the Democrats are, they had to find some explanation for their ancient base, the South, turning to vote Republican. Sooo…
.they claimed that Nixon campaigned as a racist to gain the Deep South, to win over the Dixiecrats and segregationists to the Republican fold.
Of course, problem #1 is that the
Democrats cannot provide a single example of an explicitly racist pitch in the campaign. There never was one.
4. “
The two biggest issues in the 1968 campaign were the Vietnam War…and the anti-war movement….
Nixon campaigned on
a strong anti-communist, law and order platform. While embracing the welfare state- Nixon was no conservative on domestic issues- he also railed against what he termed ‘the excesses of bleeding heart liberalism.’”
"Death Of A Nation,” Dinesh D’Souza, p. 203
5. ”Liberal neurotic obsession with this apocryphal notion- (that Southern Strategy) it’s been cited hundreds of times in the NYTimes- is
supposed to explain why Democrats can’t get nice churchgoing, patriotic southerners to vote for the party of antiwar protesters, abortion, the ACLU and gay marriage.
They tell themselves it’s because they won’t stoop to pander to a bunch of racists. This slander should probably be the first clue as to why southerners don’t like them.
The central premise of this folklore is that anyone who votes Republican is a racist. Pretty sophisticated thinking.”
Coulter,
Mugged
This was Nixon’s “silent majority,”
the ordinary Americans whom Nixon said worked hard and played by the rules and didn’t complain or set fire to anything and, precisely for this reason, had been ignored and even reviled by the Democratic Party.”
The Switch That Never Happened: How the South Really Went GOP - American Greatness
6. Soooo....what happened to the Southern voter?
They behaved as
good Americans, refused to support racist Democrats, and the racist voters aged out....and died.
Rectitude and Republicans won out.
Of course, you're still a racist.....er, Democrat, huh?
Be sure to let me know when you need your next.....'discipline.'