Dems always bring up the so-called "Southern Strategy" as if Nixon tricked Southerners into voting for him.
The fact is patriotic Southerners had had it with the growing drift of Dems into raging leftists. In 1972 there was no way patriotic Southerners were going to vote for George McGovern who represented a party that had tilted leftwards almost completely off its axis.
In short, the tale of the evil "Southern Strategy" is a complete fraud. There's no way conservative Southerners were going to support an increasingly leftist Dem party. Dems are still confounded by that simple reality.
“There’s no way conservative Southerners were going to support an increasingly leftist Dem party.”
This is true, but it made no difference. The Marxocrats have owned this country ever since FDR waltzed onto the American scene over 70 years ago. Even when the Republicans had some level of control of the legislative process the initiatives and programs that were implemented were under the total purview of the Marxocrats. Even the recent Republican victories have been for naught. There is no pretense anymore about the Republicans forcing the leviathan government to return to its constitutional limits. We now live under a completely tyrannical regime that has bipartisan support. The statist, collectivist Uniparty reigns.