“For the first time since President Richard M. Nixon’s divisive “Southern strategy” that sent whites to the Republican Party and blacks to the Democrats, African-American voters have come out in force for a Republican in the Deep South.”
They are still pushing the liberal myth I see....perhaps they should check their own archives...
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10Section2b.t-4.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0
I saw it differently. Essentially, over time the Republicans won the argument on race.
So once that was eliminated from the equation, people shifted parties based on national security issues especially as well as economic ones. Anti-communists among the Dems shifted to the GOP.
The Dems continue to be the party obsessed by race, and determined to re-write their history. And with their history, who can blame them?