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— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) February 2, 2025

There is no doubt that it has been a winning strategy for the GOP.

"When President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he told an aide that Democrats had "lost the South for a generation," anticipating a white backlash in the South. Since the end of Reconstruction, the South had been dominated by the Democratic Party. The national party's efforts to promote civil rights at the national level weakened its grip on the South, and the Civil Rights Acts, as Johnson predicted, resulted in the deep red now visible across the South in electoral maps.

The so-called 'solid South' did not become solidly Republican overnight. Republican strategies began to stoke racial resentment and antipathy to civil rights. For example, Nixon campaign advisor Kevin Phillips and RNC Chairman Lee Atwater admitted appealing to white resentment to civil rights and even white racism."

chazzed said:

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There is no doubt that it has been a winning strategy for the GOP.

"When President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, he told an aide that Democrats had "lost the South for a generation," anticipating a white backlash in the South. Since the end of Reconstruction, the South had been dominated by the Democratic Party. The national party's efforts to promote civil rights at the national level weakened its grip on the South, and the Civil Rights Acts, as Johnson predicted, resulted in the deep red now visible across the South in electoral maps.

The so-called 'solid South' did not become solidly Republican overnight. Republican strategies began to stoke racial resentment and antipathy to civil rights. For example, Nixon campaign advisor Kevin Phillips and RNC Chairman Lee Atwater admitted appealing to white resentment to civil rights and even white racism."

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Was it Lee and Roger that set things in motion politically to be covertly Racist ( no longer using the N-er slur from politicians) but having policy from that's has been extremely successful/ while simultaneously destroying the country out of a thirst to destroy the Descendants of Freedman. Atwater started it , then Fox News was the megaphone ( thanks newt Gingrich helping Rupert Murdock) which lead to tea party ( ultra racist / kkk in the daytime without hoods and white sheets ) then maga found their messiah: trump. And here we are !!!
Democrats watched all of this and allowed it (truly complicit)
Immigrants came here and joined them thinking they would be over Black folks ( using their struggle to capitalize by accepting and coddling the proximity to whiteness) but they don't care I wonder how many of those protesters right now from said country voted for orange guy policies…

Allowed it? I would not put it that way. When the members of a party in a two-party system decide to throw all decency (and established political norms) out the window, you can't blame the other side.

By the way, the source for my previous reply was https://belonging.berkeley.edu/new-southern-strategy.

Allowed /condoned / coddled … the fix was really simple in my eyes but that meant rebuking unfettered white depravity and racism