Beezer
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« on: October 11, 2014, 05:32:17 AM » |
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But then again Phillips wasn't the only one drawing up Republican electoral strategies during the 1960s and 70s so I don't think one can claim that the Southern Strategy was a "myth" based solely on his book. The move to the right on racial and social issues was always going to lead to the biggest windfall in the most racially and socially conservative part of the nation (ie the South). This of course doesn't mean though that the strategy was a strictly regional one seeing as the "white ethnics" Nixon targetted could primarily be found outside the great "Anglo-Saxon Southland."
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