re: #241 Dark_Falcon

Lee Atwater was too good not to hire, and Reagan >had to win Southern states in order to be elected. It’s true the political map was more fluid back then, but Reagan needed the South to offset expected Democratic strength in New England. Reagan ended winning most Southern states in 1980. The exception was Georgia, Jimmy Carter’s home state. Unlike Mitt Romney, Carter was actually popular in the state he’d grown up in.

A guy who openly and almost gleefully stokes racial animosity to help win an election is a bigoted piece of shit, as is the person who hires him for that task.