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The Roots of Symbolic Racism I: Kevin Phillips, 1970
In the research that led up to The Emerging Republican Majority, Kevin
Phillips helped to orchestrate the development of a Southern Strategy
to exploit white resentment of the Civil Rights Movement. Here is an
excellent New York Times profile of Phillips from May 1970: Nixon’s Southern Strategy ‘It’s All in the Charts’
The highlight, for present purposes, is this:
The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner
the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans.
That’s where the votes are.
Crossposted at StopDogWhistleRacism.com
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Comments (3)
And of course they've outgrown and lived down that legacy. (Then again, there's that consent decree on race-based vote "caging".)
I asked, back in the day, do we still need the south? The Intrade electoral map suggests no.
October 2, 2008 6:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm confused. ARe the votes with the phobic whites or with the democrats?
October 2, 2008 6:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry for the delay. The phobic whites, deserting the Democrats, are the new Republican base. Or were...
October 3, 2008 4:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
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