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The Southern conservative of 50+ years ago was virulently anti-communist, strongly advocated states rights, believed in small government, and hated Medicare.
In half a century, that has not changed at all. Just the party to which they predominantly belong.
It just irks Republicans who want us all to believe the GOP still embraces minorities. When you have to reach back 50+ years to prove it, that gives away the whole ball game of the demographic shift which has occured since then.
So the pathetic attempt in the OP to make it sound like we realists believe it happened over a weekend is just that. Pathetic.
You'll always be a moron.
The Democrats were always and remain racist.....but have the ability to pretend and convince you dopes that they aren't.
Now....The fabled 'southern strategy.'
1. Liberal neurotic obsession with this apocryphal notion- its been cited hundreds of times in the NYTimes- is supposed to explain why Democrats cant get nice churchgoing, patriotic southerners to vote for the party of antiwar protesters, abortion, the ACLU and gay marriage.
a. They tell themselves its because they wont stoop to pander to a bunch of racists. This slander should probably be the first clue as to why southerners dont like them.
b. The central premise of this folklore is that anyone who votes Republican is a racist. Pretty sophisticated thinking.
2. First of all, the Democrats didnt pass the Civil Rights Bill of 1964. That bill, along with every civil rights bill for the preceding century, was supported by substantially more Republicans than Democrats.
Second, the South kept voting for Democrats for decades after that 1964 act. And, btw, Democrats continued to win a plurality of votes in southern congressional elections for the next 30 years right up to 1994.
"GOP Poised to Reap Redistricting Rewards" by Michael Barone on Creators.com - A Syndicate Of Talent
a. Between 48 and 88, Republicans never won a majority of the Dixiecrat states, outside of two 49-state landslides. Any loses in the South are directly attributable to their championing abortion, gays in the military, Christian-bashing, springing criminals, attacks on guns, dovish foreign policy, save the whales/kill the humans environmentalism .certainly not race!
Coulter, "Mugged"
b. Rather than the Republicans winning the Dixiecrat vote, the Dixiecrats simply died out. By contrast, Democrats kept winning the alleged segregationist states into the 90s. If states were voting for Goldwater out of racism, what of Carters 1976 sweep of all the Goldwater states?
3."Three years after Brown, President Eisenhower won passage of his landmark Civil Rights Act of 1957. Republican Senator Everett Dirksen authored and introduced the 1960 Civil Rights Act, and saw it through to passage. Republicans supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act overwhelmingly, and by much higher percentages in both House and Senate than the Democrats.
Indeed, the 1964 Civil Rights Act became law only after overcoming a Democrat filibuster."
Everything I Know Is Wrong: History of the Republican Party
Clearly, no link is necessary to prove that you are an imbecile.
4. BTW....
In writing about McGovern and George Wallace, liberal luminary, Arthur Schlesinger, actually referred to Wallace voters as responding to their candidates integrity!
The primaries themselves, especially the success of McGovern and Wallace, provide the best evidence for the proposition that voters in 1972 care less about a candidate's stand on particular issues than they do about the candidate's integrity, How McGovern Will Win
Whenever you're ready, simply yell "check, please!"