re: #72 sagehen

Nixon ran on Civil Rights in 1960. See this awesome ad:

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Then LBJ/Dems grabbed the civil rights baton, got the bills passed that meant they’d foreever get all the credit and no R was going to get any votes out of a “me-too”, so he did a 180 and went with the southern strategy in 68. But Affirmative Action was his administration’s initiative.

I really, really, want the whole world to read Robert Caro’s series on LBJ. How LBJ stole the CRA from Nixon was a beautiful thing to learn about. Master Politician tactics and strategy.