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« on: June 30, 2020, 07:34:24 AM » |
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(Some smart Republican posters have explained this more thoroughly in other threads)
I think that without Wallace on the ballot, likely someone else would have put up another segregationist option. The only way this would not have been the case, in my view, is if Nixon had run further to the right and pulled a Goldwater. The fact is if Nixon had pulled a Goldwater, he would have lost, probably not destroyed like Goldwater, but still lost.
So in some sense the Southern Strategy benefited from Wallace.
Although I guess you could say that Wallace almost torpedoed Nixon by running a national campaign and stealing some law-and-order votes up North.
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