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elleng

(130,934 posts) Wed Feb 24, 2016, 09:50 PM Feb 2016

Lee Atwater’s Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy

The forty-two-minute recording, acquired by James Carter IV, confirms Atwater’s incendiary remarks and places them in context.

http://www.thenation.com/article/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/

To refresh our recollections.

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Lee Atwater’s Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy (Original Post) elleng Feb 2016 OP

trump is the southern strategy KT2000 Feb 2016 #1

Right, the ones whose favor atwater (and subsequent repugs) sought elleng Feb 2016 #2

Video: zebonaut Feb 2016 #3

KT2000

(20,581 posts)

1. trump is the southern strategy

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Wed Feb 24, 2016, 10:02 PM

Feb 2016

out loud. They have picked up new issues a long the way, so trump bellows the bigotry of that strategy and has lots of followers. It is his followers who really scare me. trump will go away but we now know too much about the people of this country.