On 8/5/2020 5:04 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
agree with that. His election was a surprise, but there is a clear
path leading to it, starting from Nixon's Southern Strategy
What has been Nixon’s Southern Strategy? Was it anti-black? I
suspected Nixon to be a crook, but I am not informed that he was a
racist, well, … I do remember some antisémite statements though. Nixon
was a crook, but quite an amateur one compared to Trump. At least
Nixon was still able to resign… Trump will not resign easily, even
after the election. If Biden win, he might just say “fake news” and
send police for those who doubt this…
The Southern Strategy was to take advantage of reaction against Lyndon
Johnson's civil rights act and the voting act. The Republican
strategists saw that by supporting "states rights" and "anti-busing" and
"anti-abortion" they could draw off the white Democratic support in the
southern states and in the Catholic labor class. It was very
successful. Before Nixon the southern states were know as "the solid
south", meaning solidly Democratic. This dated back to a southern
reaction against Republican carpetbaggers after the Civil War. What it
showed was that racism was still a strong political motivator in 1968.
In only two election cycles the southern states switched from Democratic
to Republican.
Brent
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