OK, I will AGAIN put the explicitly racists quote from the article I used : "and there’s no doubt, at least in my mind, that GOP candidates used racialized appeals to try to win over Southern whites."
To iterate, the Democrats have been, and still are, the Party of Slavers. This story gives the excuse, sublimely and explicitly, that the Republicans are the Party of racists; and that is not true!
Read the article and put that in context of the entire article.
“Goldwater’s nomination may well have represented a watershed in the GOP’s ideological development (though I think there are some nuances there that are frequently missed as well), and there’s no doubt, at least in my mind, that GOP candidates used racialized appeals to try to win over Southern whites. None of those debates are impacted by the observations above.
But the assertion that white Southerners began voting Republican in 1964 is simply incorrect, whether for president, Congress, or statehouses. The development of the Southern GOP was a slow-moving, gradual process that lasted over a century, and is just being completed today.”