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[JoePhilly]

12. The GOP "Southern Strategy" isn't atually about the south.

That's simply the name that the GOP gave their strategy to try to blame the woes of poor and middle class whites on minorities.

Its roots derive from the migration of the southern Dixie-Crats, who left the Democratic party after the civil rights movement. And as such, it has helped the GOP maintain majorities in much of the south to this day.

But the Southern Strategy's usefulness easily transfers to states like PA, where much of the state is rural, middle class, suffering, and white. See, the jobs didn't go away because the "job creators" shipped them over seas ... minorities did it.

It more or less started with Nixon (although some might say Goldwater), and Nixon was from California. Reagan continued this approach, he was born in Illinois. Bush the senior also used this strategy, he was born in Massachusetts. Bush II also used it, he was born in Connecticut. So clearly you don't need to be from the south to use the GOP's "Southern Strategy".

This is where the term "Welfare Queen" originates. Its why Newt uses the phrase "food-stamp President". And its why Mitt's campaign is falsely claiming that Obama removed the work requirement from welfare. Its why the GOP claims that Fanny and Freddie caused the financial collapse.

And Mitt is nothing like JFK. But he is very much like Nixon, Reagan, Bush 1 and Bush 2.