5 Signs Scott Walker Is Using GOP’s Racist 'Southern Strategy' to Win in 2016

[Panich52]

5 Signs Scott Walker Is Using GOP’s Racist 'Southern Strategy' to Win in 2016

Walker demonizes unions, the poor and voters of color in order to appeal to whites.
By Roger Bybee / AlterNet

Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s drive for an anti-labor “right to work” law covering private-sector workers is deeply rooted in the racism of the Deep South’s former slaveholding states.

They are yet more evidence that he is following a template known as the Republican Party’s “Southern strategy,” which plays to white voters’ racial resentment, even though his budding presidential campaign is based in snow-encrusted Wisconsin.

This emerging strategy is reminiscent of Richard Nixon’s original “Southern strategy” of 1968 and Ronald Reagan’s 1980 campaign kickoff event. Reagan started his campaign by championing state's rights in Neshoba County in Mississippi, a site whose only national symbolic significance was serving as the site of the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers.

If the Republicans can downplay overt racial animus at an overt level while subliminally signifying their lack of sympathy for people of color, they can potentially build a durable coalition of whites,” he wrote. “The trick for Republicans in their quest to maintain white majoritarian hegemony is to allow this fusion of issues [racial fears and resentment, economic instability, social conservatism] to do its mobilizing work at a subliminal level, without triggering widespread resistance to explicit manifestations of bias and race prejudice.”

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[still_one]

1. Walker did not hide his anti-Union stance, the tragedy is that he was voted in 3 times

[Gothmog]

2. The GOP southern strategy lives on

Lee Atwater is rotting in hell but his tactics live on

[Praek3]

3. If it looks like a duck...

Sorry to mix metaphors but...

Any way you look at, anything emanating from Scott Walker's vicinity, smells bad. Is bad. Always will be bad.

I am sick of this hateful, self-serving, God-spewing, bald-faced liar.

[bluestateguy]

4. Suit himself

This is 2016, not 1968 or 1980 or 1988.

A white voter only strategy is not viable anymore. Yes there are racists out there still, but their numbers don't add up to nearly what they used to.

Demographics.

[yeoman6987]

5. Let's hope you are right

Only once in 40 years has a party kept the Presidency for 12 years. Let's hope 2016 makes it two.