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From: j__carlson@gmx.com

On 6/2/2021 12:22 PM, David Hartung wrote:
> On 6/2/21 2:10 PM, Rudy Canoza wrote:
>> The Southern Strategy is traditionally understood as a Goldwater and
Nixon-era
>> effort by the Republican Party to win over disaffected white voters in the
>> Democratic stronghold of the American South. To realign these voters with
the
>> GOP, the party abandoned its past support for civil rights and used
>> racially coded language to capitalize on southern white racial angst.
However,
>> that decision was but one in a series of decisions the GOP made not just on
>> race, but on feminism and religion as well, in what Angie Maxwell and Todd
>> Shields call the "Long Southern Strategy."
>>
>> In the wake of Second-Wave Feminism, the GOP dropped the Equal Rights
>> Amendment from its platform and promoted traditional gender roles in an
effort
>> to appeal to anti-feminist white southerners, particularly women. And when
the
>> leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention became increasingly
>> fundamentalist and politically active, the GOP tied its fate to the
Christian
>> Right. With original, extensive data on national and regional opinions and
>> voting behavior, Maxwell and Shields show why all three of those decisions
>> were necessary for the South to turn from blue to red.
>>
>> To make inroads in the South, however, GOP politicians not only had to take
>> these positions, but they also had to sell them with a southern "accent."
>> Republicans embodied southern white culture by emphasizing an "us vs. them"
>> outlook, preaching absolutes, accusing the media of bias, prioritizing
>> identity over the economy, encouraging defensiveness, and championing a
>> politics of retribution. In doing so, the GOP nationalized southern white
>> identity, rebranded itself to the country at large, and fundamentally
altered
>> the vision and tone of American politics.
>>
>> https://www.amazon.com/Long-Southern-Strategy-American-Politi
s/dp/0190265965/ref=pd_sbs_6/147-6518259-8525565?pd_rd_w=sSUNy&p
_rd_p=a5925d26-9630-40f3-a011-d858608ac88b&pf_rd_r=WMKN953706BNR
5NDKYB&pd_rd_r=0c7125b9-3f9d-436b-bfdd-16e6fc46d841&pd_rd_
wg=OEGB5&pd_rd_i=0190265965&psc=1
>>
>>
>> or https://tinyurl.com/3ka9mv82
>
> A book written by a couple of liberal

Prove it.

> university academics.

They got the analysis exactly right.  You know this.

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