How the Southern Strategy Happened

[Shell_Seas]

Despite the growing number of GOP Southern Strategy deniers, the Southern Strategy definitely happened, and there is a mountain of evidence to support it.

https://livingbluetx.com/2020/07/southern-strategy/

[bobbieinok]

1. Linked article very mportant history! Very informative! A MUST READ

Contains many primary sources, photos of contemporaneous newspaper stories, etc

Am saving

[Alacritous Crier]

2. Good stuff!

Thanks.

[Lisa0825]

3. K&R

[Buckeye_Democrat]

4. Good article, but why did it stop there?

I agree with the history, and it's consistent. Completeness seems lacking, though, because it didn't even touch the 1976 election of Jimmy Carter.

Carter won the South, but lost the North to Ford.

There's no doubt that the racist party flip happened, but the murkiness obviously persisted until at least 1980.

Edit: I might have found the answer myself. Supposedly, Carter employed racist political strategies in 1970 to win an election in Georgia. So maybe the Southerners expected some "wink wink" from him during the 1976 election?

[Shell_Seas]

5. Thanks.

I guess, I didn't think about it, but I see your point.

[SCantiGOP]

6. LBJ was wrong

He is reported to have said, upon signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act, that "we've lost the South for a generation."
The South has now been lost to the non-racist party going on three generations. I don't think LBJ realized the intensity and durability of racism in the former Confederacy.

I have a special bottle of single malt scotch that has toasted events like Obama's election and the birth of my granddaughters, and it has about two good hits left in it. If NC and Georgia can go Democratic in November, it will mean a landslide happened, and I will drink that last little bit of liquid heaven while hunkered down between those two states in my home in South goddamn Carolina.

[BigmanPigman]

8. I hope I can say "Cheers" to you in Nov!

[northoftheborder]

7. Very excellent article --- thanks for posting this.

Most northern Democrats, and younger Democrats in the present day, do not understand or know this history about the parties.