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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (37404)	10/10/2008 12:05:32 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 149317

hmm actually that doesn't sound quite right to me. What about the dixiecrats? Those were a bunch of racists in the south that were tolerated by the democrats to win elections. When the dixiecrats went away and those states went red was when the dems started to lose (I thought). I think the dixiecrats left the Dems in the mid 60s right after some civil rights legislation. The first electoral map that I saw was 1968 and the South was all red. I just checked with wiki.....here it is: "In the 1960s, the courting of white Southern Democratic voters was the basis of the "southern strategy" of the Republican Party's Presidential Campaigns. Republican Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater carried the Deep South in 1964, despite losing in a landslide in the rest of the nation to President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas. Johnson surmised that his advocacy behind passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would lose the South for the Democratic party and it did. The only Democratic presidential candidate after 1956 to solidly carry the Deep South was President Jimmy Carter in the 1976 election." en.wikipedia.org Having read the wiki excerpt, I bet the electoral map in 1964 was mostly blue.......last time until 1996

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (37404)	10/10/2008 1:26:57 AM
From: koan	Respond to of 149317

Lizzy: "hmm actually that doesn't sound quite right to me. What about the dixiecrats? Those were a bunch of racists in the south that were tolerated by the democrats to win elections. When the dixiecrats went away and those states went red was when the dems started to lose (I thought)." KOAN: "Yes, that is correct. When the 1964 civil rights act was passed LBJ said, we dems just lost the south for the next 50 years. " Very precsient! The dirty little secret is that the Republicans went to the south and said in code: "vote for us and we won't enforce integration any more than we need too e.g. busing, affirmative action, voting rules, etc. First thing Jeb bush did away with was affirmative action. That was Reagans Southern strategy put together by Lee Atwater the godfather of Hitleresk tactics." There are some, who feign the desire for truth and discussion, who will not own up to that! But the south has been voting Republican, as a block, since 1980. Which is counter to their own best interests in that the south depended on unions more than any other part of the country and the first thing the neo cons did was start union busting. Remember how Reagan ruthlessly took the air traffic controlles apart. He was making an example of them. The neo cons have done a hell of a job. 35% union in 1980 and about 12% now I think. The entire trip was written in the book: "what is wrong with Kansas" by Tom Frank. I have not read it, but I know the story.