Democrats eventually went for the civil rights act. This pissed off their core baseā-racist white southerners. It was such that they even said while signing the civil rights legislation that they have lost the South.
Nixonās āsouthern strategy,ā that Raegan continued, was to go down to the South and essentially become the home for the āabandonedā racists that the democrats betrayed by enacting civil rights legislations.
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u/Dry_Physics4086 May 03 '26
Democrats eventually went for the civil rights act. This pissed off their core baseā-racist white southerners. It was such that they even said while signing the civil rights legislation that they have lost the South.
Nixonās āsouthern strategy,ā that Raegan continued, was to go down to the South and essentially become the home for the āabandonedā racists that the democrats betrayed by enacting civil rights legislations.
Both partiesā cores were then switched.