The Republican Southern Strategy Explained

[MrFun]

It all makes sense now!

[giblets]

You dug up a thirty year old quote because...? I guess you were puzzling over why Republicans were successful in the South in the 1970s?

[MrFun]

If you don't like history, then don't read up on it.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

If you don't like history, then don't read up on it.

"Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen." - Peggy Noonan

[DaShi]

How ironic.

[SlowwHand]

If you don't like history, then don't read up on it.

You need to change your name to MrOneDimensional.

[Tupac Shakur]

I've never understood liberals' obsession with the "Southern strategy." Yes, the GOP cynically took advantage of the fears of racist Southerners following the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, but it never actually supported slavery or Jim Crow like the Democratic Party did to maintain the "Solid South." The Republican Party clearly has the better record on racial issues, no matter how much people like MrFun try to revise history.

[Felch]

Pac

[DaShi]

No one cares about the past record. They care about what the party represents now.

[MrFun]

I've never understood liberals' obsession with the "Southern strategy." Yes, the GOP cynically took advantage of the fears of racist Southerners following the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, but it never actually supported slavery or Jim Crow like the Democratic Party did to maintain the "Solid South." The Republican Party clearly has the better record on racial issues, no matter how much people like MrFun try to revise history.

Yes, the Democratic party today, is just as racist and white supremacist as it was in the nineteenth century. That is why the vast majority of blacks today, are Republican voters.

[giblets]

His point is that the Republican party did not become more racist during the 1960s.

[SlowwHand]

Yes, the Democratic party today, is just as racist and white supremacist as it was in the nineteenth century. That is why the vast majority of blacks today, are Republican voters.

You're obviously drunk or on drugs.

[Herman Cain]

Racist Republicans? Impossible. Recall that I was once a serious contender for the Presidency of the United States!

[Felch]

Yes, the Democratic party today, is just as racist and white supremacist as it was in the nineteenth century. That is why the vast majority of blacks today, are Republican voters.

Do you, just sprinkle commas in, at random?,

[Lorizael]

/me seizes.