The Republican's "Southern Strategy" Has Born It's Terrorizing, Racist Fruit-

[KittyWampus]

And destroying the Voting Rights Act and doing whatever it takes to keep black voters from the polls is a part of the Southern Strategy.

There are many other DU'ers more conversant on this subject. But I wanted to add that the Republican party INTENTIONALLY uses racism and voter intimidation and suppression.

The words "Southern Strategy" should be brought up whenever any Republican wants to play innocent or feign ignorance.



In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to a Republican Party strategy in the late 20th century of gaining political support for presidential candidates in the Southern United States by appealing to regional racial tensions and history of segregation.

In the mid 1960s, a period of social turmoil, Republican Presidential candidates Senator Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon worked to attract southern white conservative voters to their candidacies and the Republican Party.

In the 1968 presidential campaign, Nixon won Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee, all former Confederate states, contributing to the electoral realignment of white voters in some Southern states to the Republican Party.

After federal civil rights legislation was gained via bipartisan votes, including the Voting Rights Act of 1965, more than 90 percent of black voters registered with the Democratic Party. The VRA provided tools to end their decades-long disenfranchisement by southern states. Hundreds of cases have been litigated to change election systems, such as at-large voting, that have prevented even significant minorities from electing candidates of their choice for city and county positions.

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[rock]

1. Just a quick note while we're on the subject

The Republicans have an exhausted ideology and the only way they can even come near to holding ground is thru deceitful means: gerrymandering, voter suppression, vote counting with computers (which can be tampered with), etc. They do NOT offer any legitimate ideas that will help the Democracy. The Southern Strategy is absolutely necessary for the GOP's existence.

[TheMastersNemesis]

2. The Trouble Is That The GOP Strategy Works And Will Likely Continue To Wori.

[applegrove]

3. And the GOP try and hide any racial events so they can keep racism alive and well so their southern

strategy will still work wonders for them at the polls. If they state to the people in the south that Roof was racially motivated it might change the hearts of the base. They might feel some empathy for church goers mowed down at a prayer meeting. And then they would no longer vote against their economic best interest and make the GOP richer. This is all about tending the southern strategy garden that bears so much fruit come election time. The confederate flag does the same thing.

[ladjf]

4. I agree with this post. But, I would like to

suggest that the first "Southern Strategy" created by the Republicans was during the late 1850's when the Republicans realized that the slavery issue was a sure fire way to divide the Country so that they, the Republicans could take power. Their theory was correct.
The seized power and held it until the 1930's , during the Great Depression when FDR become the President. The Democrats control the Government for 40 wonderful years until is civil rights issues flared up again, capped off by the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

I point out that the Civil Rights issue didn't just come out of nowhere during the mid 20th Century. They were the result of all the mistakes made by both Democrats and Republicans for the day the Civil War ended in 1865, mistakes that continued to compound
the interactions between whites and blacks and Northerners and Southerners necessitating the Civil Rights legislation.
Once again, the Republicans were more astute than the Democrats. They realized that that Southern White politicians had systematically disenfranchised African Americans in every way they could. This stupid and immoral behavior set themselves up
for the loss of power. The Democrats did the ethical thing by passing the Civil Rights act. The Republicans realized that they gain enough power from the Southern Democrats to once again take over. We had the second "Southern Strategy". It worked perfectly.

Since that time the American Government has been seriously crippled by the coalition of Republicans and the "Dixiecrats" would left the Democratic Party to join with the Republicans. Today, Republicans are still holding on to power by setting up policies and procedures that deprive millions of Americans for their right to vote. That one structure is possibly the worst political problem we are facing. The Democrats are consistently casting more votes in the Presidential elections that are Republicans.

The day Nixon resigned was the day that George Wallace informed him that he wasn't going to support him in the Watergate scandal.
Nixon saw that he was loosing the "Southern Strategy" advantage and so, resigned. But, with Nixon out of the way, the Republicans
forged ahead with their illegal and corrupt political practices.