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To: locogringo who wrote (834882)	2/7/2015 11:57:03 AM
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People did terrible deeds in the name of conservative racism. The party they belong to is not set in stone. Everything really began to change in '64, but it started after the war.. “We have lost the South for a generation.” ~ Lyndon Johnson, Fifty Years Ago Today, Upon Signing the Civil Rights Act Posted on July 2, 2014 \| hecatedemeter.wordpress.com from a combjelly link Political analyst and Nixon campaigner Kevin Phillips, analysing 1948-1968 voting trends, viewed these rebellious Southern voters as ripe for Republican picking. In The Emerging Republican Majority(Arlington House, 1969), he correctly predicted that the Republican party would shift its national base to the South by appealing to whites' disaffection with liberal democratic racial and welfare policies. President Nixon shrewdly played this "Southern strategy" by promoting affirmative action in employment, a "wedge" issue that later Republicans would exploit to split the Democratic coalition of white working class and black voters. (See John Skrentny, The Ironies of Affirmative Action (U Chicago Press, 1996)). This strategy soon produced the racial party alignments that prevail today. umich.edu