To: Bridge Player who wrote (2700 ) 12/17/2016 2:29:43 PM From: koan Read Replies (1) | Respond to Guys like you perplex me. You seem like a smart guy. But how can you believe that the African-Americans have been hoodwinked by the Democrats and that is why they vote for them rather than Republicans is baffling.en.wikipedia.org Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War .United States Census Bureau southern strategy refers to methods the Republican Party used to gain political support in the South by appealing to the racism against African Americans harbored by many southern white voters. [1] [2] [3] African American Civil Rights Movement and dismantling of Jim Crow laws in the 1950s and 1960s visibly deepened pre-existing racial tensions in much of the Southern United States, Republican politicians such as presidential candidate Richard Nixon and Senator Barry Goldwater developed strategies that successfully contributed to the political realignment of many white, conservative voters in the South to the Republican Party that had traditionally supported the Democratic Party. [4] [5] This top-down narrative of the southern strategy is generally believed to be the primary force that transformed southern politics following the civil rights era. [6] [7] This view has been questioned by historians such as Matthew Lassiter , Kevin M. Kruse and Joseph Crespino , who have presented an alternative, "bottom up" narrative, which Lassiter has called the "suburban strategy". This narrative recognizes the centrality of racial backlash to the political realignment of the South, [8] but suggests that this backlash took the form of a defense of de facto segregationracial integration , and that the story of this backlash is a national, rather than a strictly southern one. [9] [10] [11] [12] Goldwater campaign and the presidential elections of 1968 and 1972, made it difficult for the Republican Party to win the support of black voters in the South in later years. [4] In 2005, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman formally apologized to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a national civil rights organization, for exploiting racial polarization to win elections and ignoring the black vote. [13] [14] 1 Introduction2 Background2.1 19th century Reconstruction to Solid South2.2 World War II and population changes3 Roots of the Southern strategy (1963–1972)4 Evolution (1970s and 1980s)5 Shifts in strategy (1990s and 2000s)6 Scholarly debates7 See also8 Notes9 References10 Further reading
