Pennsylvania is the DUMBEST state in the union

[BeaverFever]

1 hour ago, Infidel Dog said:

Already dealt with:

"The South, as a whole, became Republican during the 1980s and 1990s. This had nothing to do with Nixon; it was because of Ronald Reagan and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America.” The conservative appeal to patriotism, anti-communism, free markets, pro-life and Christianity had far more to do with the South’s movement into the GOP camp than anything related to race.  

The voters didn’t suddenly reform their worldviews. They were deeply religious and deeply conservative racists when they were voting for Democrats and they wee no different when thy were voting for Republican candidates who espoused those same ideals. 

[Infidel Dog]

51 minutes ago, BeaverFever said:

The voters didn’t suddenly reform their worldviews. They were deeply religious and deeply conservative racists when they were voting for Democrats and they wee no different when thy were voting for Republican candidates who espoused those same ideals. 

The Republicans never were racist as a party but they remained conservative, lovers and God and Country. The South largely empathized.

Democrats decided not to be the face of Racism anymore and moved towards something they pushed as "progressive," except it wasn't. And now they're what we call "woke" where "racist" is becoming a word without a meaning. It's just a thing they call you if they disagree with your politics.

Good on you Southerners. You made a good call. You chose well.

As to the idea of a "Southern Strategy" with a migration of Dixiecrats to the Republican party for more racism...

That's a myth. 

[robosmith]

7 hours ago, Infidel Dog said:

The Republicans never were racist as a party but they remained conservative, lovers and God and Country. The South largely empathized.

Democrats decided not to be the face of Racism anymore and moved towards something they pushed as "progressive," except it wasn't. And now they're what we call "woke" where "racist" is becoming a word without a meaning. It's just a thing they call you if they disagree with your politics.

Good on you Southerners. You made a good call. You chose well.

As to the idea of a "Southern Strategy" with a migration of Dixiecrats to the Republican party for more racism...

That's a myth. 

It's a FACT that Nixon's Southern strategy was used to attract the racist vote from Wallace.

It's what STARTED the Southern shift from Democratic to solidly RED TODAY.

[reason10]

On 11/16/2022 at 8:50 PM, robosmith said:

Racism in the Parties switched with Nixon's "Southern strategy" in which he sought to compete for the Southern white vote with George Wallace. The Dixiecrats became Republicans. AKA no longer Democrats.

Too bad you FAILED American History.

Seriously? Are you REALLY this stupid?

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/402754-the-myth-of-nixons-southern-strategy/

(From the link.)

Nixon and race?

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This seems unlikely, but let’s consider the possibility. Progressives insist that Nixon’s appeals to drugs and law and order were coded racist messaging. Yet when Nixon ran for president in 1968 the main issue was the Vietnam War. One popular Republican slogan of the period described the Democrats as the party of “acid, amnesty and abortion.” Clearly there is no suggestion here of race.

Southern Strategy?

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Nixon barely campaigned in the Deep South. His strategy, as outlined by Kevin Phillips in his classic work, “The Emerging Republican Majority,” was to target the Sunbelt, the vast swath of territory stretching from Florida to Nixon’s native California. This included what Phillips terms the Outer or Peripheral South. 

Dixiecrats changing parties?

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And how many racist Dixiecrats did Nixon win for the GOP? Turns out, virtually none. Among the racist Dixiecrats, Strom Thurmond of South Carolina was the sole senator to defect to the Republicans — and he did this long before Nixon’s time.

These are facts. And you are ignorant.

[reason10]

15 hours ago, BeaverFever said:

The voters didn’t suddenly reform their worldviews. They were deeply religious and deeply conservative racists when they were voting for Democrats and they wee no different when thy were voting for Republican candidates who espoused those same ideals. 

That is a LIE. Democrats were ALWAYS racist and their voters are equally racist and stupid. Nothing has changed in 150 years.

[Infidel Dog]

8 hours ago, robosmith said:

It's a FACT that Nixon's Southern strategy was used to attract the racist vote from Wallace.

It's what STARTED the Southern shift from Democratic to solidly RED TODAY.

The only fact there is that you keep calling falsehoods facts.

[robosmith]

2 hours ago, Infidel Dog said:

The only fact there is that you keep calling falsehoods facts.

You're a Canadian, likely in diapers (if alive) when Nixon rolled out his Southern strategy.

I LIVED IN the US when that happened, and experienced it. I even shook Nixon's hand when he visited my town.

IOW, it is you who is ignorant of the FACTS.

[Infidel Dog]

Really? Shaking Nixon's hand imbued upon you the gift of being the repository of all American historical and Political truth?

Wow! That's some handshake. Can you believe they wanted to impeach that guy?

On the other hand concerning this "Southern Strategy" you believe in with such devotion to the myth...

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Nixon barely campaigned in the Deep South. His strategy, as outlined by Kevin Phillips in his classic work, “The Emerging Republican Majority,” was to target the Sunbelt, the vast swath of territory stretching from Florida to Nixon’s native California. This included what Phillips terms the Outer or Peripheral South. 

 

[robosmith]

5 hours ago, Infidel Dog said:

Really? Shaking Nixon's hand imbued upon you the gift of being the repository of all American historical and Political truth?

Wow! That's some handshake. Can you believe they wanted to impeach that guy?

On the other hand concerning this "Southern Strategy" you believe in with such devotion to the myth...

 

Nope. Experience

Nixon's "Southern Strategy" and Forces against Brown

 

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The U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown, declaring that state-imposed school segregation was unconstitutional, increased the politics of education rather than decreased its importance in the school desegregation. This article describes the political activities in school desegregation after Brown by the two major political parties, republicans and democrats. In summary, the Republican Party placed its major activities toward winning southerners ' votes in order to change the majority in the U.S. Congress, slowing down the desegregation process, creating alternatives to public school desegregation (such as school-choice option), and making conservative appointments to the federal judiciary. The Democratic Party sought to retain its southern political base by promising an orderly process for implementing the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Brown, providing legal remedies through the courts with assistance by the Office of the U.S. Attorney General, and providing financial support to local school districts seeking to desegregate their schools. Nevertheless, the conservatives, over a 50-year period, lost a few struggles but won the political war against court-ordered school desegregation. The national political struggle over school desegregation is discussed in this article, and that struggle continues.

 

Of course there are many more sites than you'll ever find denying it.

[Infidel Dog]

There are two things you need to know about that.

# 1 Wikipedia editors can be blatantly, noticeably, glaringly, obviously high end progressive propagandizers. Even the co-creator of Wikipedia has complained about it. It's gotten so bad with so many complaints that they were even forced to ban head editors like Progressive climate propagandizer William Connelley.

#2 You'll know when you've hit one of those propagandizers pet projects when you see something like this from the Wikipedia page you quoted from: "This top-down narrative of the Southern Strategy is generally believed..."

Now what a guy like that means by his opinion "is generally believed", is generally believed by his fellow 'Progagandizers.'

Basically you found an echo for the BS you want to believe. Good for you.

[Infidel Dog]

BTW your guy at Wikipedia reaches pretty deep up his butt for support. School segregation is one thing. School Choice is another. He specifies School Choice. If School Choice is such a bigoted option why are so many black mothers even far left advocates so passionately for it.

And political appointments to the judiciary is something both parties do. Pointing his finger at the party he wants to damn for a misdirected point doesn't make your Wikipedia editor's opinion fact. It just makes him look strange and bigoted:

 

Edited November 19, 2022 by Infidel Dog

[robosmith]

1 hour ago, Infidel Dog said:

There are two things you need to know about that.

# 1 Wikipedia editors can be blatantly, noticeably, glaringly, obviously high end progressive propagandizers. Even the co-creator of Wikipedia has complained about it. It's gotten so bad with so many complaints that they were even forced to ban head editors like Progressive climate propagandizer William Connelley.

#2 You'll know when you've hit one of those propagandizers pet projects when you see something like this from the Wikipedia page you quoted from: "This top-down narrative of the Southern Strategy is generally believed..."

Now what a guy like that means by his opinion "is generally believed", is generally believed by his fellow 'Progagandizers.'

Basically you found an echo for the BS you want to believe. Good for you.

Are you under the illusion that I quoted wikipedia? Maybe you found that in the google search results which show dozens of sources that verify Nixon's Southern strategy. LMAO

[Infidel Dog]

Actually I clicked the link at the bottom of your post which gave me this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#:~:text=In American politics%2C the Southern,to racism against African Americans.

but I get your point. Your actual quote was from something called the Journal of Negro Education which would be Humanities profs spewing cultural marxism, crt and the religion of woke. 

Should have stuck with Wikipedia. It's bad too but not that bad.

Edited November 19, 2022 by Infidel Dog

[WestCanMan]

On 11/17/2022 at 2:51 PM, Infidel Dog said:

The Republicans never were racist as a party but they remained conservative, lovers and God and Country. The South largely empathized.

Even when the Dems pretended to be on the right side of history, the Republicans were still way ahead of them.

As far as I know, the Civil Rights Bill remains to this day to be the only bill in the history of any democracy anywhere in the world that received broader support from across the aisle than from the party that tabled it. 

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Democrats decided not to be the face of Racism anymore

Although the KKK doesn't officially operate as the Dems' own militia anymore, they still have unofficial militias right now - BLM and Antifa.

Hell, I guess you could almost count the FBI as a Dem militia now, the way they use military-level force to burst into the private homes of people who would have just shown up in court after a simple subpoena or arrest warrant arrived in their mail. 

[WestCanMan]

14 hours ago, robosmith said:

Are you under the illusion that I quoted wikipedia? Maybe you found that in the google search results which show dozens of sources that verify Nixon's Southern strategy. LMAO

Do you think it's possible that people in the US would lie about politics, and put those lies in books? And if they did, would they be the first people in the history of the world to do so?

FYI you can spot racism, classism, sexism, and anythingism in a political party by their policies, comments and actions. 

The Dems hurt the poorest people in the country by bringing in even poorer people, by the millions, to compete with them for entry-level shit-jobs and low income housing.

Their defund the police movement increased crime in poor neighbourhoods.

Their war on the energy sector raised the price of gas and heating oil beyond what poor people can afford, but Nancy and Chuck can still afford it.

Joe and Hunter can still afford food with all their millions from China. 

The BLM riots that the Dems loved so much didn't destroy homes or businesses in Nancyville. They destroyed black communities, and poor communities. 

Do you think that sticking up for M Brown, the gentle giant violent criminal, was worth all of the destruction that it caused? No, it was not. 

FYI leftists suck, and everything that they do actually harms the poorest people in our countries.