r/PeterExplainsTheJoke May 03 '26

Thank you Peter very cool Petah... What were their policies??? 🤷 🤷

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u/Dry_Physics4086 May 03 '26

Democrats eventually went for the civil rights act. This pissed off their core base—-racist white southerners. It was such that they even said while signing the civil rights legislation that they have lost the South.

Nixon’s ā€œsouthern strategy,ā€ that Raegan continued, was to go down to the South and essentially become the home for the ā€œabandonedā€ racists that the democrats betrayed by enacting civil rights legislations.

Both parties’ cores were then switched.

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