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All quotes are from Wrong on Race: the Democratic party's buried past by Bruce Bartlett.
There is a longstanding myth that the GOP, and in particular Richard Nixon pursued a 'Southern Strategy' to appeal to racist white voters in the South. The sole evidence for its existence traces primarily to a pair of '60s era GOP consultants: Lee Atwater, and Kevin Phillips.
Nixon is most often linked to the Southern Strategy. In Feb, 1953, Ike set up a group to advise him on desegregation. He chose Richard Nixon as the head. Nixon later exchanged letters with MLK Jr. and tried to set up a meeting with the President, but Ike declined that.
Running for President in 1968, Nixon conceded the white Southern vote to George Wallace, who was running 3rd party. Wallace often attacked Nixon.
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Therefore, contrary to popular belief, Nixon had no "Southern Strategy" designed to carry racist votes through coded messages...It would have made no sense politically with Wallace in the race.
Historian Glen Moore writes:
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The biggest fallacy in the Southern strategy viewpoint is that...If Nixon emphasized winning southern votes, then he risked losing support in the major industrial states, which would be committing political suicide.
Nixon chose Spiro Agnew as running mate in part because of Agnew's reputation as a civil rights advocate. As Maryland Gov., he had defeated segregationist Democrat George Mahoney.
Harry Dent Sr., a Nixon associate from S.C. who has been falsely accused as an architect of the non-existent Southern Strategy, wrote in a 1969 memo:
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This administration has no Southern strategy, but rather a national strategy which, for the first time in modern times, includes the South, rather than excludes the South from full and equal participation in national affairs.
According to Bruce Bartlett, there is currently a revision underway among some historians regarding the Southern Strategy, heading in the direction of leaving it in the myth-bin of history.
the 'southern strategy' is a lie burrowed in progressive revisionist history books, but don't expect anyone who doesn't read actual history and think for themselves to know the southern strategy is not true.
Next up " Liberal myth: the Holocaust'"
The right and Trumpees are always in denial of facts.
You aren't informed if you think the majority of anti-Semites in this country are " the right" or "trumpees".
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