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           Main article: The Southern Strategy
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No one denies that there was a "southern strategy", but the left distorted it from attracting disenfranchised conservative voters from all over, to targeting (and capturing) racists.

History[edit | edit source]

Historically, the Republicans had driven civil rights. But after WWII, JFK wanted to rehabilitate the Democrats and his own image from being Hitler or Communist sympathizers. So JFK copied the civil rights acts of 1875 and 1957, and just passed them again as The Civil Rights act of 1964. His own party opposed it, and it took greater support among Republicans than Democras to get it passed. Johnson was having problems with MLK riots and the war, so he decided to distract with somethign that in his own words, “have those niggers voting Democratic for 200 years.” -- so he passed Welfare, Affirmative Action and the Civil Rights act of 1968 (which was just an extension of the Republican passed Civil Rights act of 1875).

Examples of Republicans driving civil rights[edit | edit source]

The Civil Rights act of 1964

Basically, the Civil rights act of

which was there to strengthen Brown vs. Board of education and voting right protections. While this was the first civil rights act since 1875 (also republicans), it was thus most significant. But it rarely gets mentioned in leftist circles. Then JFK wanted to pretend that Democrats cared about civil rights too (even though he had been a Hitler sympathizer and pro-fascist). So he copied the Republican passed , and the civil rights act of 1957, with their own copy, and created [ which didn't do much of anything, other than say what had already been the law for 90 years.

Basics[edit | edit source]

The Republicans realized that the radicalism, identity politics, and central authority was alienating conservative and moderate Democrats in both rural America and the South, so they devised the "Southern Strategy" to appeal to those broad groups. (Carpet bagging northerners and big government was still unpopular in the South). Racist were a small percentage of the electorate, even in the South, especially as that would have alienated the Republican base, that it never made sense for Republicans to try, nor for the racist Democrats to switch.

The Democrat Party had no defense, so they turned to Saul Alinsky and Joseph Goebbles "big lie", and used the Frankfurt Schools Critical Race Theory: if you can't divide by class, try race instead. So they called the Republicans "racists", and rebranded the Republican's Southern Strategy as, "a strategy to appeal to racists".

Lifelong racists weren't going to switch parties with such stalwarts in the DNC as George Wallace, Joe Biden and Jimmy Carter, and the rich history of the Democrats and the KKK. Which is why Democrats won the South in 1968, 1976, 1988, 1992, and 1996. (Nixon landslided in 1972, and Reagan did in 1980 and 1984 -- so they carried everything). It wasn't until the year 2000 (32 years after "The Southern Strategy"), that Republicans started really carrying the South regularly.

So the facts are:

  1. the southern strategy was to go after disenfranchised moderates and conservative Democrat voters and their failed big government federalism
  2. the idea is that lifelong Democrat racists are going to switch parties to the one that did more for civil rights, all because they were pissed over a minor addendum to a fair housing law in 1968 (that was a minor extension of the law that the Republicans had passed in 1875)? It's such nonsense that only uninformed Democrats and their media could believe it.
  3. if there was a huge swing of racist voters and representatives, they never showed up at the polls. No one has every shown evidence of a big shift. There's a lot more evidence that the vast majority of racists stayed put in the DNC. And that the Conservative and Moderate Democrats fled the party.
Remember the basics: as the South got less racist, they became more Republican. As the North got more racist, they became more Democrat.
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