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Line 95: − [[File:The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) 20 Sep 1987, Sun Page 79.PNG|right|250px|thumb|" ‘we [Delawareans] were on the South’s side in the Civil War.” - Joe Biden, ''Philadelphia Inquirer'', 20 Sep 1987, Page 79.<ref>''Presidential hopeful Biden faces an image problem'', [https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=28178299&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjE2OTgzNDI0OCwiaWF0IjoxNjIwMDAwOTY5LCJleHAiOjE2MjAwODczNjl9.Qis6deAMX2ZszubFmWmV75o-sSIRnJfvNYg4W9pJF3A The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) 20 Sep 1987, Sun Page 79.</ref>]]+ − + Line 107:
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==Politics==
==Politics==
[[Dinesh D'Souza]] observed, "As the South became less racist, it became more Republican."<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/06/democratic-party-racist-history-mona-charen/</ref>
[[Dinesh D'Souza]] observed, "As the South became less racist, it became more Republican."<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/06/democratic-party-racist-history-mona-charen/</ref>
===Presidential politics===
===Presidential politics===
[[File:The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) 20 Sep 1987, Sun Page 79.PNG|right|250px|thumb|" ‘we [Delawareans] were on the South’s side in the Civil War.” - Joe Biden, ''Philadelphia Inquirer'', 20 Sep 1987, Page 79.<ref>''Presidential hopeful Biden faces an image problem'', [https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=28178299&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjE2OTgzNDI0OCwiaWF0IjoxNjIwMDAwOTY5LCJleHAiOjE2MjAwODczNjl9.Qis6deAMX2ZszubFmWmV75o-sSIRnJfvNYg4W9pJF3A The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) 20 Sep 1987, Sun Page 79.</ref>]]
The South favored the [[Jeffersonian Republicans]] during the [[First Party System]], from the 1790s to 1820s. However, during the [[Second Party System]], 1830-1854, the region was closely balanced between Democrats and the [[Whig Party]], with the Democrats gaining after 1848.
The South favored the [[Jeffersonian Republicans]] during the [[First Party System]], from the 1790s to 1820s. However, during the [[Second Party System]], 1830-1854, the region was closely balanced between Democrats and the [[Whig Party]], with the Democrats gaining after 1848.
While liberal academics allege that the shift of the South to the Republican Party began in the 1960s, the evidence that it really began in the 1920s and the 1950s is undeniable.<ref name="SeanTrende"/> Elections Analyst Sean Trende explains, "the inescapable truth is that the GOP was making its greatest gains in the South while it was also pushing a pro-civil rights agenda nationally. What was really driving the GOP at this time was economic development. As Southern cities continued to develop and sprout suburbs, Southern exceptionalism was eroded; Southern whites simply became wealthy enough to start voting Republican."<ref name="SeanTrende">Trande, Sean (April 30, 2013).[http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/30/southern_whites_shift_to_the_gop_predates_the_60s_118172.html Southern Whites' Shift to the GOP Predates the '60s]. ''Real Clear Politics''. Retrieved September 9, 2016.</ref>
While liberal academics allege that the shift of the South to the Republican Party began in the 1960s, the evidence that it really began in the 1920s and the 1950s is undeniable.<ref name="SeanTrende"/> Elections Analyst Sean Trende explains, "the inescapable truth is that the GOP was making its greatest gains in the South while it was also pushing a pro-civil rights agenda nationally. What was really driving the GOP at this time was economic development. As Southern cities continued to develop and sprout suburbs, Southern exceptionalism was eroded; Southern whites simply became wealthy enough to start voting Republican."<ref name="SeanTrende">Trande, Sean (April 30, 2013).[http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/30/southern_whites_shift_to_the_gop_predates_the_60s_118172.html Southern Whites' Shift to the GOP Predates the '60s]. ''Real Clear Politics''. Retrieved September 9, 2016.</ref>
Republican inroads into the South, which was beginning to weaken overt racism in some areas, may be what prompted Lyndon Johnson to throw off what had been the driving force binding Southern Democrats together. As part of this, the Democrats, knowing they would never win another election if they continued with overt racism and its derived policies, changed strategies by adopting a more subtle and subversive form of racism against blacks and manipulating them into voting Democrat (as admitted by LBJ himself, who was recorded as saying "I'll have those n*****s voting Democratic for the next 200 years").<ref>Ronald Kessler,[https://www.amazon.com/Inside-White-House-Kessler/dp/1433244985 Inside the White House: The Hidden Lives of the Modern Presidents and the Secrets of the World's Most Powerful Institution], Pocket Books, 1995, p. 33</ref> They would do so by weakening public schools across the board via programs such as "social promotion" (the practice of passing students based solely on age and not on demonstrated ability, causing increases in illiteracy and decreases in standard test scores – they would also criticize such tests as being "culturally biased"), instituting the modern [[welfare state]] making minorities dependent on government (which along with the "legalization" of [[abortion]] via [[Roe v. Wade]], and planting of [[Planned Parenthood]] facilities in minority areas, also effectively destroyed the black family culture), and turning Democrat-controlled cities into deteriorating slums infested by crime and drugs while falsely taking credit for the Republicans' civil rights advances and falsely accusing anyone opposed to the Democrats' corrupt schemes to undermine blacks of "racism".<ref name="Short History"/>
Republican inroads into the South, which was beginning to weaken overt racism in some areas, may be what prompted Lyndon Johnson to throw off what had been the driving force binding Southern Democrats together. As part of this, the Democrats, knowing they would never win another election if they continued with overt racism and its derived policies, changed strategies by adopting a more subtle and subversive form of racism against blacks and manipulating them into voting Democrat (as admitted by LBJ himself, who was recorded as saying "I'll have those n*****s voting Democratic for the next 200 years").<ref>Ronald Kessler,[https://www.amazon.com/Inside-White-House-Kessler/dp/1433244985 Inside the White House: The Hidden Lives of the Modern Presidents and the Secrets of the World's Most Powerful Institution], Pocket Books, 1995, p. 33</ref> They would do so by weakening public schools across the board via programs such as "social promotion" (the practice of passing students based solely on age and not on demonstrated ability, causing increases in illiteracy and decreases in standard test scores – they would also criticize such tests as being "culturally biased"), instituting the modern [[welfare state]] making minorities dependent on government (which along with the "legalization" of [[abortion]] via [[Roe v. Wade]], and planting of [[Planned Parenthood]] facilities in minority areas, also effectively destroyed the black family culture), and turning Democrat-controlled cities into deteriorating slums infested by crime and drugs while falsely taking credit for the Republicans' civil rights advances and falsely accusing anyone opposed to the Democrats' corrupt schemes to undermine blacks of "racism".<ref name="Short History"/>