GOP “Southern Strategy” is not working

[Myra]

The Republican Party’s infamous “Southern Strategy” is dying out, and that’s a good thing.

The idea was to get whites to vote Republican by appealing to their racial impulses. Lyndon Johnson had predicted that the traditionally Democratic South would go Republican after he signed the Voting Rights Act, and that’s what happened.

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In the end, the country rejected these low appeals, just as the vast majority of Americans are rejecting the new secessionists who have surfaced after the election... read more here

[Hekate]

Link?

Thanks

[Myra]

(11-29-2012 10:25 PM)Hekate Wrote:  Link?

Thanks

Sorry about that...

http://progressive.org/gop-southern-stra...ot-working