Jophiel wrote:
knoxxsouthy wrote:
Why don't you go look at which party supported rights throughout the 60's
You realize of course that the genesis of the Southern Strategy was the ability to say "Those Democrats gave those uppity negros the Civil Rights Act!"
See. This is why I wanted you to explain what you meant when you used the phrase. That's *not* the "Southern Strategy" Joph. It wasn't so much a strategy as an assumption that for every black vote the Democrats won in the South by supporting civil rights, they'd lose a white racist Democrat. It wasn't about energizing white racist Republicans. It was about getting white racist Democrats to vote GOP instead out of disgust with their own party.
The point is that even though some adviser mentioned it, there's absolutely no evidence that this idea had any effect at all on southern politics. Nixon went on 4 years later to win 38% of the black vote. It's hard to argue that white racist Democrats were flocking to the GOP during that same time period, nor that black voters were fleeing (yet anyway).
More relevantly to your silly attempts to argue that the southern strategy is still in play somehow, is the fact that it relies on an assumed large number of white racist Democrats in the south who'll switch their votes if their party gets too cozy with black folks. Um... Are you seriously arguing that this is the case today? You're trying to associate GOP actions today with a label from 40 years ago, which doesn't even remotely apply. But you'll do it anyway, because that label makes whomever it's applied to a racist! Oh yes... If you are in the GOP, you support the "Southern Strategy" and that makes you a racist. Joph said so on the interwebs so it must be true!!!
Lol...