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Bookmark or Share- Southern strategy | Definition, The South, History, Republican Party ...The Southern strategy is a campaign strategy pursued by the U.S. Republican Party and initially aimed at increasing support from white voters in the South by subtly endorsing racial segregation, racial discrimination, and the disenfranchisement of Black voters.
- The Emerging Republican Majority, 50 Years Later - The AtlanticThe Emerging Republican Majority has loomed large in the minds of political operatives and observers ever since, as an essential guide to the Republican “southern strategy” that gave modern ...
- How the ‘Party of Lincoln’ Won Over the Once Democratic SouthAnd even as Republican Richard Nixon employed a “Southern strategy” that appealed to the racism of Southern white voters, former Alabama Governor George Wallace (who’d wanted “segregation ...
- Origins of the Southern Strategy - The AtlanticOrigins of the Southern Strategy. By Matthew Yglesias. November 20, 2007. Under Franklin Roosevelt, the Democratic Party assembled a political coalition so vast and diffuse that it included the...
- Southern strategy - WikipediaThe phrase "Southern Strategy" refers primarily to "top down" narratives of the political realignment of the South which suggest that Republican leaders consciously appealed to many white Southerners' racial grievances to gain their support.
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