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 Johnsons 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 GOPs 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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Yeah, it's better to have them on some sort of welfare
./s
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?
All the talk of impeachment has them reaching for their "nyah nyah, yours was the worst" defenses.
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.
Blacks loved Kennedy, that’s what put them in the Democratic camp once and for all.
Nixon’s biggest crime?
Lemme see now, Nixon created the EPA - - - did he do something worse than that?
“Its 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?
“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.
George Wallace won the deep south in 1968. Some southern strategy that was. Humphrey won Texas. These libs deal in canards.
“The Democratic Party showed racists the door.”
Anyone recall the democratic party showing racists the door?
Anyone?
Bueller?
Bueller?
Bueller?
Keeper. Bookmarking.
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.
The big lie, once again.
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.
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.
Newspapers researching history on Wikipedia now, are they?
Lets edit cohens biography page on wikipedia. Make him think hes the offspring of lizards from mars.
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