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Maneli Jamal: Morning in Adanac

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palomino4/21/2012 3:13:58 pm PDT

re: #211 Dark_Falcon

I’d honestly make the point that the ‘Southern Strategy’ really was no more than the migration of of various types of Social Conservatives in the former Confederate States from the Democrats to the Republicans. Those seeking to criticize Nixon for encouraging such a move must ask what else Nixon could have done; Without those additional voters the GOP would have been in long-term minority status. Moreover, those Southern SoCons were not going to simply go away; If they had not stayed within the two party system
they might well have formed a third, regional party and then deadlock might have seting even stronger.

Really? So Nixon’s excuse is, “I had to pursue an aggressively racist strategy; otherwise I might have lost the election.” True profile in courage.