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Link: https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/the-myth-of-the-racist-republicans/
about it...as well as scores, if not hundreds of others....e.g. the linked authors....here's their Abstract...
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Abstract
The GOP’s Southern Strategy initiated the realignment of the South with the Republican Party by exploiting white racial anxiety about social changes to the southern racial hierarchy. However, the GOP’s success was not solely the result of its policy position on civil rights. Rather, that decision was part of a series of decisions the party made on feminism and religion as well, in what is called here the “Long Southern Strategy.” White resentment toward a more level racial playing field, for example, was intensified by the threat of a level gender playing field, and the promotion of “family values” by anti-feminists paved the way for the Christian Right. Moreover, Republican candidates did not just campaign down South, they became “southern.” Throughout realignment, the power of southern identity was rarely taken into consideration, but for whites who proclaim themselves to be southern, that has been the only party that really mattered.
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An easy way to verify that the GOP has become a safe haven for Racists is to look at any gathering they have...like CPAC and calculate the percentage of non-white attendees vs. the percentages within the United States.
That some would try to deny such a purposeful, and shameful, mentality is certainly no surprise.
Link: https://academic.oup.com/book/35313/chapter-abstract/299959321?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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voted for Joe Biden...and they are as intelligent as White Americans...they know which party supports their quest for equal rights.
They believe in government entitlements and reparations.
They also want a government that is soft on crime.
They believe disproportionately in abortion.
Many do not care for other minorities.
Mehlman says in his prepared text. "Some Republicans gave up on winning the African American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong.
Your characterization that racism was purged from the
Democratic Party by the evil Republicans seducing racists to join them is utter bullshit.
You have neither read nor refuted the Virginia professor’ analysis. You just squawk the same tired gaslighting.
You are insufferably boring.
swallow, but if you are against racism in this country, you need to take it and do what you can to root it out.
Your assertion that I am racist is so ridiculous that
It proves what a complete fool you are.
I’ve got gravitas, pal. Hard earned and street real.
My track record dwarfs your phony baloney
cockamamie bullshit.
I am against racism AND reverse racism.
You have yet to refute the economic and
North to South migration issues put forth by
the professor.
That’s because you can’t.
leaders admit it...whether or not you want to believe it is your choice.
Your Marvel Comics approach to this is actually more like
Looney Tunes.
You have yet to deal with being the party of Slavery, Secession, and Civil War.
I have a life. I have good friends. I have a tee time.
Unlike you, I am a stranger to bad lies.
Babble on.
and the Republican Party CHANGED when Goldwater, Lee Atwater and others saw the opportunity to gain votes from disaffected Southern Democrats who didn't like their party supporting Black Americans...this is not fantasy...it really happened...even former RNC Chairman, Ken Mehlman, and GOP strategist, Stuart Stevens admit it...and they were a part of it when it happened...you can't get closer than that to the truth....accept it..
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Southern Strategy...not my words...theirs...what more do you need?
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What planet do you live on?
Do you recall Biden and his pal Thurmond?
Kennedy and The Mob?
Why won’t you address the Slavery,
Secession and Civil War that YOUR party caused?
I can quantify the slaughter of The Civil War.
How many lives were lost by
your southern bullshit story?
Got a ball park number?
...and here's the final passage...
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Finally, the impact of the 1964 act on the American political scene was profound. Bill Moyers, a former aide to LBJ, recalled, in a statement during a 1990 symposium at the Johnson Library:
The night that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, I found him in the bedroom, exceedingly depressed. The headline of the bulldog edition of the Washington Post said, "Johnson Signs Civil Rights Act." The airwaves were full of discussions about how unprecedented this was and historic, and yet he was depressed. I asked him why.
He said, "I think we've just delivered the South to the Republican Party for the rest of my life, and yours."
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Yes indeed...both the Democratic and Republican parties changed after that legislation passed...and the Southern Democrat Racists shifted over to their new home...the Republican Party.
Link: https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2004/summer/civil-rights-act
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vote with their more liberal (think Kennedy) Dems on the CRA and VRA, so Johnson appealed to Republicans who aligned with Illinois' sympathetic Senator Everett Dirksen to get the needed votes...that precipitated the Southern Dem Senators switch to the Republican Party...since they didn't agree with the direction the Democratic Party was taking.
Another example of the differences within parties is Liz Cheney vs Marjorie Taylor Greene...or Kevin McCarthy vs Matt Gaetz...Parties are not homogeneous, and sometimes the differences get too large for certain members causing them to either switch parties or form new ones.
btw, have you (the person) ever posted to this Forum under the Username of "Aragoto"?...Yes, or No.
So the Republicans got the Civil Rights Act passed to attract Racist Southern Democrats?
Link: https://newstalk1130.iheart.com/featured/common-sense-central/content/2018-05-01-the-myth-of-the-republican-democrat-switch/
groups and Jim Crow laws ...now the South is controlled by the Republican Party...where did all those racists go?
Radical Muslims, BLM, etc are all still in The Party of Hate. Got that count yet?
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full advantage.
This guy who wrote the article doesn’t deny it. He claims though that the current party there isn’t that way. There is some truth in what he’s saying. What he leaves out though is that the party while not embracing them, still wants the votes of the “unsavory characters” (racists) there and elsewhere. I still remember MAS, bless his MAGA heart claiming that Reagan would use code words like “welfare queens” to get the point across.
The only issue is to what degree, if any, it motivates the current GOP there. I honestly do not think there are any segregationists in power in the GOP there like the 60’s and early 70’s. I also think MOST white southerners have accepted the changes that have occurred in race relations in the nation. Hell, SC has a black GOP senator. There are also a fair amount of personally conservative black folk everywhere in the nation and I think they are accepted very well in the South. My only beef with the article is the unstated point that while the GOP doesn’t court or embrace them, it wants the votes of what the author calls “the unsavory people”. For example that R guy who was interviewed in SC who said he wouldn’t vote for Haley “cause she ain’t got no balls to scratch”. One can only imagine his views on race relations. However, he’s not the majority there. The South has changed a lot economically and demographically since the days of the Southern Strategy. GA has 2 D senators and voted for Biden. One of them is a black preacher. Overgeneralization is always an issue.
Dem to Rep in the South...misogyny and Christian fundamentalism had much to do with it as well as Racism. It bears repeating...not all Republicans are racists, Misogynists or Christian Fundamentalists, but the Party is a safe haven for them...I'll try to find that link.
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