Southern Strategy was it racist???

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[chevydude26]

so i'm posting on a forum arguing over how the southern strategy wasn't necessarily racist but that republican policies are race neutral so therefore it was just a consequence that racists would choose the race neutral party over the party of welfare...

but then somebody mentions kevin phillips and it seems his comments were pretty intentional...but I also find out he wrote anti-bush books and isn't a real conservative...how should I respong...i'm slystallion26 by the way

[slowhandluke]

My own opinion is that the National Socialists had an exclusively Collectivist viewpoint (group identity politics) and cared nothing for Individual rights, so I have to place them on the Left.

Does not the fact that the Nazis proclaimed themselves to be collectivist and socialist prove the point? They placed themselves on the left.

[ClearCase_guy]

That works for me. However, I imagine you've heard leftists make the argument that National Socialism was merely a name chosen to fool the gullible. They weren't really socialists, you see. But, as a political recruiting tool, they called themselves socialists so that the real socialists would vote for them.

Everyone knows that "National Socialists == Evil" concept and this necessarily leads to the conclusion that these lying SOBs just HAD to be rightwing.

'Cause the Left are the good guys. Right???

[Intolerant in NJ]

...i know that and pointed that out but according to them anything before 1964 doesn’t matter...1964 is the pivotal year in which Republicans provided the margin for the passage of the Civil Rights Act which many southern Democrats opposed - so if a lot of southerners transferred to the Republicans after that it's hard to see why they'd be labeled "racists" - in fact many of them changed parties because they saw Democrats supporting the worst elements of that Act - the quotas/special favors which it was leading toward - even Hubert Humphrey, sponsor of the bill, was so concerned that he promised that if it ever lead to special treatment for any minority he would "eat a copy of the bill" - he didn't live long enough to keep his promise......

[Theodore R.]

Not racist, just deceitful, as the GOP never carried out its pledges. Too many Democrats from everywhere to stop them even had they been willing to do as they said