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Ed Huntress wrote:



The main thing that happened was Nixon's "Southern Strategy." He peeled
off
the southern conservatives from the Democrats and converted them into
Republicans, by using code phrases and selective silences to give the
impression that he was a racist, just like them. It worked.



Ed Huntress

The conversion of the South to Republicans started long before Nixon.
You are probably too young to remember the Dixiecrats, but that was a
revolt of the South from the Big CIty Democratic party. It was obvious
to most people that the Democrats were no longer the party of States
Rights, Right to Work, etc. Sure the Democrats tried to heal the
schism, but things never got back owning the Solid South.

But the Dixiecrats failed. Both Kennedy and LBJ were able to pull the two
wings of the Democratic party together to win the presidency, years after
the Dixiecrats.

Nixon pulled it off. That's when the Republicans turned strongly right, and
the Dems turned left.

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Ed Huntress