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The '''Southern strategy''' was a term used to describe the alleged strategy used by the [[Republican Party]] to win the [[White House]] by winning support in [[The South]] rather than the media centers of [[Boston]] and [[New York City]]. In the movie ''[[Death of a Nation: Can We Save America a Second Time?]]'', [[Dinesh D'Souza]] points out that this alleged strategy was actually one of winning the support of the [[Sun Belt]] rather than the Deep South. He also points out that as the South became less racist, it became more Republican.<ref>D'Souza, Dinesh (August 23, 2018). [https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/402754-the-myth-of-nixons-southern-strategy The myth of Nixon’s ‘Southern Strategy’]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved August 23, 2018.</ref>

The '''Southern strategy''' is a [[Democrat]] [[conspiracy theory]] that alleges [[Richard Nixon]] targeted Southern states during the [[1968 presidential election]] in the wake of the [[bi-partisan]] [[1964 Civil Rights Act]]. In fact, [[the South]] was carried by Democrat [[renegade]] [[George C. Wallace]]. In 1972, the Democrats for the first time in 40 did not have a Southern on the ticket, and Southerners overwhelming rejected two Northern [[liberal]]s at the top of their ticket. In 1976, 1992, 1996, 2008, and 2012 the South voted Democrat. After end of [[Jim Crow]] laws in the mid 1960s, the South became increasingly Republican as it became less racist. The [[War on Poverty]] enticed Blacks onto the [[Democrat plantation]].

 

In the movie ''[[Death of a Nation: Can We Save America a Second Time?]]'', [[Dinesh D'Souza]] points out that this alleged strategy was actually one of winning the support of the [[Sun Belt]] rather than the Deep South.<ref>D'Souza, Dinesh (August 23, 2018). [https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/402754-the-myth-of-nixons-southern-strategy The myth of Nixon’s ‘Southern Strategy’]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved August 23, 2018.</ref>

[[Liberals]], repeatedly unpopular in the South, have tried to attribute this strategy to racial politics.  The reality is that liberals have always played the [[political card|racist card]] far more often than [[Republicans]] do.  Examples of this racialization are the terms "[[Welfare state]]" and "[[Welfare queen]]", even though the original welfare queen [[Linda Taylor]] was a white woman.

[[Liberals]], repeatedly unpopular in the South, have tried to attribute this strategy to racial politics.  The reality is that liberals have always played the [[political card|racist card]] far more often than [[Republicans]] do.  Examples of this racialization are the terms "[[Welfare state]]" and "[[Welfare queen]]", even though the original welfare queen [[Linda Taylor]] was a white woman.