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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   
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   >>   
   >>   
   >> 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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