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Nixon’s bigger crime: Southern strategy (barf alert)
nydailynews.com ^ | August 4, 2014 | Richard Cohen

Posted on 08/05/2014 7:17:08 AM PDT by lowbridge

It was Nixon who devised and pursued what came to be called the Southern strategy. This was, in the admirably concise wording of Wikipedia, an appeal “to racism against African-Americans.” Nixon was hardly the first Republican to notice that Lyndon Johnson’s civil rights legislation had alienated whites both in the South and elsewhere — Johnson himself had forecast that Southern whites would desert the Democratic Party.

But Nixon was the GOP’s leader and, in January 1969, the President of the United States. The White House, it seemed, would not do a damned thing for African-Americans.

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Even-steven, you might say, except the Democrats were expanding rights while the Republicans wanted to narrow them or keep them restrictive.

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Excuse me for extrapolating, but segregationists are not merit scholarship winners. Racism is dumb, and so are racists. The Democratic Party showed racists the door.

The GOP welcomed them and, of course, their fellow travelers — creationists, gun nuts, anti-abortion zealots, immigrant haters of all sorts and homophobe

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: riverdawg
"Anyone who bemoans the loss of, for example, textile-industry jobs in the U.S. never had one. "

Yeah, it's better to have them on some sort of welfare…./s

21 posted on 08/05/2014 8:17:42 AM PDT by moehoward
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To: riverdawg
Anyone who bemoans the loss of, for example, textile-industry jobs in the U.S. never had one.

As a consumer of textiles for quilting and home decor, I wish it had never left. The fabric for sale is either highly overpriced or just crap. The prints on the textiles that used to be characteristic of America such as calico look like they were designed in a Chinese kindergarten. You can drive a truck between strands of the weave in the affordable broadcloth or muslin. Traditional fabrics like batiste or cotton voile have been adulterated with fillers and polyester. There's no love there anymore; it's just how cheaply can we make it, and how fast?

22 posted on 08/05/2014 8:21:53 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
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To: moehoward
So the Dems are in so much trouble now they have to resort to ‘it’s Nixon’s fault’.

All the talk of impeachment has them reaching for their "nyah nyah, yours was the worst" defenses.

23 posted on 08/05/2014 8:26:18 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
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To: lowbridge
The big loss of the black vote for Republicans occurred during the '64 campaign and not in the seventies. In 1960 Nixon got 32% of the black vote. By opposing civil rights legislation Goldwater only got about 6% of the black vote in '64.

The so-called southern strategy is a myth concocted by liberals. There wasn't one program created by the '64 civil rights bill that Nixon stopped. There were no covert, subliminal appeals to racist southern whites to vote for Republicans. The fact was a very socially liberal Nixon was not as radical as George McGovern.

24 posted on 08/05/2014 8:40:05 AM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: driftless2

Blacks loved Kennedy, that’s what put them in the Democratic camp once and for all.


25 posted on 08/05/2014 8:40:44 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: lowbridge

Nixon’s biggest crime?

Lemme see now, Nixon created the EPA - - - did he do something worse than that?


26 posted on 08/05/2014 8:45:21 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: sportutegrl
Excellent post, thank you. All can see that, just as an example, Nixon only got 13% of the vote in Mississippi. 1968 vote totals by state
27 posted on 08/05/2014 8:57:43 AM PDT by TimSkalaBim
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To: elcid1970

“It’s an old & simplistic calumny - that Ku Kluxers switched to the Republican Party”

Exactly. Considering the fact that the republican party voted in favor of the 1964 civil rights bill in larger percentages than the democrats, why would those ku kluxers leave the democratic party for a party that voted in favor of civil rights by larger margins?


28 posted on 08/05/2014 9:45:07 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: PATRIOT1876

“The moron who wrote this ACTUALLY is allowed to write for a newspaper!?!?!?!?!”

Memo to washington post: I’ll be happy to replace richard cohen for you and I’ll work for a smaller salary than what you are currently paying him.


29 posted on 08/05/2014 9:47:18 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

George Wallace won the deep south in 1968. Some southern strategy that was. Humphrey won Texas. These libs deal in canards.


30 posted on 08/05/2014 9:51:27 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: lowbridge

“The Democratic Party showed racists the door.”

Anyone recall the democratic party showing racists the door?

Anyone?

Bueller?
Bueller?
Bueller?


31 posted on 08/05/2014 9:55:09 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge
“The Democratic Party showed racists the door.”


32 posted on 08/05/2014 9:56:03 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: lowbridge

Keeper. Bookmarking.


33 posted on 08/05/2014 10:07:58 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: dfwgator

I had at least a couple undergrad polisci professors, both veterans of the Civil Rights Movement, identify the tipping point for Blacks as then-candidate Kennedy calling MLK Jr. as he was sitting in jail.

The crux of the Liberal “Southern Strategy” argument is that the Republicans didn’t match Dems action for action on Civil Rights. IOW it positions the Civil Rights Movement as a political bidding war where the GOP couldn’t and wouldn’t pander and bribe to the level Dems could and did.


34 posted on 08/05/2014 10:15:10 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: lowbridge

The big lie, once again.


35 posted on 08/05/2014 10:17:07 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: Albion Wilde

http://www.calicocorners.com/c-420-robert-allen.aspx


36 posted on 08/05/2014 10:33:33 AM PDT by riverdawg
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To: moehoward
“’Anyone who bemoans the loss of, for example, textile-industry jobs in the U.S. never had one.’

Yeah, it's better to have them on some sort of welfare…./s”

You have the causation reversed. Increases in the minimum wage and more stringent OSHA regulations, among other things, made labor too expensive for domestic firms to manufacture most textile products and apparel at prices affordable to the middle class. You can still buy a hand-stitched shirt made in the USA, but be prepared to pay close to $100 for it.

37 posted on 08/05/2014 10:53:52 AM PDT by riverdawg
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To: lowbridge
He has a problem with:
“ creationists, gun nuts, anti-abortion zealots, immigrant haters of all sorts and homophobe”

He is against:
creationists-A DIFFERENT WORLDVIEW ON SCIENCE MOCKED BY THE LEFT , gun nuts-THOSE SUPPORTING THE CONSTITUTION, anti-abortion zealots THOSE WHO DO NOT WANT TO KILL BABIES, immigrant haters PEOPLE WHO WOULD LIKE NOT LIKE TO HAVE OUR JOBS STOLEN AND OUR COUNTRY INVADED of all sorts and homophobe HE IS AGAINST WHAT GOD SAYS.

Cohen hates: a different point of view than his, the Constitution, life, a sovereign nation and God.

...doesn't sound like a guy a sensible moral person would want to hang out with.

38 posted on 08/05/2014 11:21:26 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: lowbridge
This was, in the admirably concise wording of Wikipedia, an appeal “to racism against African-Americans.”

Newspapers researching history on Wikipedia now, are they?

39 posted on 08/05/2014 11:35:34 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (CNN suppressed news to maintain their Baghdad bureau under Saddam; they just did the same for Hamas.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Lets edit cohens biography page on wikipedia. Make him think hes the offspring of lizards from mars.


40 posted on 08/05/2014 1:16:44 PM PDT by lowbridge
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