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Talk:Southern strategy (view source)
Revision as of 15:06, September 18, 2020
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==Propaganda==
==Propaganda==
I would call this strategy a liberal myth. Both parties entice demographics and race as evident with widespread gerrymandering. While Nixon had designs, so did those before and after. Aschlafy is absolutely correct that as Democrats moved further and further left, they abandoned the Bible belt. The '64 Civil Rights Act wasn't a turning point. This was a gradual movement. Liberals constantly cite this as evidence of a grand scheme to build white supremecy and to label the entire region racist.Southern Strategy is a leftist myth.--[[User:Jpatt|Jpatt]] 17:29, 22 July 2015 (EDT)
I would call this strategy a liberal myth. Both parties entice demographics and race as evident with widespread gerrymandering. While Nixon had designs, so did those before and after. Aschlafy is absolutely correct that as Democrats moved further and further left, they abandoned the Bible belt. The '64 Civil Rights Act wasn't a turning point. This was a gradual movement. Liberals constantly cite this as evidence of a grand scheme to build white supremecy and to label the entire region racist.Southern Strategy is a leftist myth.--[[User:Jpatt|Jpatt]] 17:29, 22 July 2015 (EDT)
==Atwater==
Just wanted to add a note about the point that Atwater was making. The goal of "coded language" is that there is a huge audience you wish to reach, but can't reach them by normal means. Atwater says there was no audience. Use of the N-word now hurts you. Race died as a force in electoral politics with Wallace's run in 68 as it was then constituted. Everything that Atwater was saying was a point about the past, particularly the late 50s/early 60's on the democrat side.
In the end, without an audience, there are no coded words. For example, "states rights" actually = "states rights", it is not that "states rights" = "slavery".
'''The interviewer's questions''' are also telling. Had Atwater given different answers, we would likely have a myth that the parties switched in the 1980s. But since they couldn't make that one stick, we receive the narrative that the parties switched in 1964. And again, I contend that everybody should listen to the full 42 minute interview on the tape. It's on the Nation.com reference. [[User:Progressingamerica|Progressingamerica]] ([[User talk:Progressingamerica|talk]]) 11:06, 18 September 2020 (EDT)