Reddit reviews The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South

Muh Southern Strategy

When

will

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leftist

idiots

finally

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a

myth

Don’t take my word for it.

Check out the book “The End of Southern Exceptionalism” and Noam Chompski’s documentary “Manufacturing Consent”

Both very illuminating to what we believe happened during that period vs what actually happened

The switch happened, again like you say but the Big Switch narrative came out before whites changed to the Republican Party in the 90s. The narrative came out in the 60s after the civil rights movement happened.

They WANT you to believe republicans are terrible people so you don’t check out our facts and do your own independent research. You’re much smarter than that. Don’t let them dupe you! God speed 👍

The southern strategy is over 150 years old and is such a fascinating and defining aspect of American politics. It's a must know of sorts for anyone that wants to talk about electorates. I don't look down on anyone who doesn't know much about it, but i suggest they learn.

Here is a really dope read on southern politics and here is an OK read somewhat debunking it.

Incorrect. The "Southern Strategy" was coined by Democrats who were fearful of losing the South as a voter base by victimizing an entire region of the country. The Democrats claimed that the Southern Strategy was an effort by the Republicans to appeal to racists in the South, when in fact, the exact opposite is true.



The Democrats wanted to continue to divide this region racially, while the entire South was booming economically after World War II. The Republican Party was (and continues to be) the party in favor of economic prosperity and freedom, and there were far more middle class and suburban citizens who were reaping the benefits of the economic boom. They began voting Republican, and the Democrats needed their votes to return. As a result of this shift, the Democrats tried to make these new Republicans feel remorseful for voting this way, thus branding this shift as racist.



Trust me, I have studied this, and I indeed have a mind to. Do you have a mind to check out this book? It may help shed some light on the real reason for the shift, beyond a phony strategy: “The End of Southern Exceptionalism,” by Richard Johnston and Byron Shafer. I'll even throw in an Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/End-Southern-Exceptionalism-Partisan-Postwar/dp/0674032497/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8

> The key is primary sources

That's hilarious given the left's tendency to lean on anonymous sources.

Anyway, I feel like you're not even trying...

Books:

https://smile.amazon.com/End-Southern-Exceptionalism-Partisan-Postwar/dp/0674032497

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0230116469

https://smile.amazon.com/Wrong-Race-Democratic-Partys-Buried/dp/0230610994?sa-no-redirect=1

https://smile.amazon.com/Mugged-Racial-Demagoguery-Seventies-Obama/dp/1591846560

Articles:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/09/misunderstanding_the_southern_realignment_107084.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/10/AR2010091002679.html

https://bilanreport.com/2017/03/13/debunking-the-party-switch-myth/

http://tennesseestar.com/2018/06/14/carol-swain-commentary-facts-myths-and-rewritten-history-of-the-left-as-tweeted-by-princetons-kevin-kruse/

https://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2012/oct/8/picket-coulter-shreds-southern-strategy-myth-gop-s/

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/04/the-southern-strategy-debunked-again.php

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10Section2b.t-4.html

https://www.nationalreview.com/2014/08/myth-republican-racism-mona-charen/

https://www.dineshdsouza.com/news/myth-of-nixons-southern-strategy/

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2787426/posts

http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2013-02-13.html

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9506

https://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2014/07/03/nixons-southern-strategy-and-a-liberal-big-lie-n1858667

https://pjmedia.com/michaelwalsh/2013/3/29/history-lesson/

https://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2012/07/11/the-southern-strategy-myth-and-the-lost-majority/

https://www.nationalreview.com/2012/05/party-civil-rights-kevin-d-williamson/?pg=1

https://hillarysamericathemovie.com/evidence/

https://www.waynedupree.com/the-democrats-big-lie-dixiecrats-switched-to-republican-party-with-racist-agenda/

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2012/01/25/the-truth-about-the-southern-strategy-the-msm-doesnt-want-you-to-know/

https://hotair.com/archives/2014/12/07/landrieu-and-the-myth-of-the-southern-realignment/

https://www.wnd.com/2014/07/nixons-southern-strategy-and-a-liberal-big-lie/

https://www.claremont.org/crb/article/the-myth-of-the-racist-republicans/

http://www.aviewfromgenz.com/leftism-debunked-the-southern-strategy/

https://m.theepochtimes.com/dsouzas-death-of-a-nation-shows-democrat-plantation-still-in-business_2609079.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/SouthernStrategy/

Videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDAQRVYBEoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol7OMGBDMao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHgOLKrscCM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiprVX4os2Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxhymucVdKU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl9bFseo6fI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgLckzSibxs

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8564902/


There's really a lot of info out there about it if you would just choose not to be close-minded.

> The Southern Strategy myth is a way liberals get to white wash the Democrat party's racist roots. They get to pretend that progessives and liberals were always on the side of the angels and that Republicans now are as racist as Democrats used to be before civil rights.
> 21 Dixiecrats voted against the Civil Rights act of 1964 in the Senate. One later became a Republican and the rest stayed Democrats until they retired or were defeated. In fact the last Democrat to try to filibuster the act, Robert Byrd personally spoke for 14 hours straight against the bill. He then served in Senate Leadership from 1967-to 1989. He then served on the most powerful committee until his death.
> The south had already started moving Republican with the election of John Tower in 1960 and didn't really turn all the way Republican until the 1990s.

>Naming two people

I named 3 people, actually. Robert Byrd (who famously said he'd rather spit on the American flag than fight alongside blacks, and was an active Klansman for over 10 years), Orville Faubus (who lead the charge to ban blacks from public schools), and the infamous Bull Connor.

As for sources, I'll gladly source every claim you call into question:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/09/09/misunderstanding_the_southern_realignment_107084.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10Section2b.t-4.html

https://www.amazon.com/End-Southern-Exceptionalism-Partisan-Postwar/dp/0674032497

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Source #1 is a thorough debunking of the claims you've made, and the next two links are tied together: based on research by the University of Pennsylvania, they found that economic issues were the driving factors of Southern voters, not race.

If we want to talk about "bullshit claims", we should focus on yours. The South switched to a Republican majority in 1994. The only Southern Politician to switch from Democrat to Republican was Strom Thurmond.

If Republicans didn't take the majority in the South until 1994, that directly opposes your argument -- and the falsehood pushed by the Left -- that both parties "Switched" in the 1960s. This is further proven false when a greater % of Republicans voted for and supported Civil Rights legislation than Democrats did. Furthermore if we had left the vote entirely to the Democrats to decide, Civil Rights legislation would never have passed in the 60s and the only reason it did was because of the almost universal support from the Republican party.

You can thank Republicans for that, as well as the 14th and 15th Amendments -- which were universally opposed by Democrats. You're welcome.

You need to read a book and stop listen to the propaganda media.
https://www.amazon.com/End-Southern-Exceptionalism-Partisan-Postwar/dp/0674032497

You want simple answers an there are no such things as simple answers.