June 25, 2014: Blacks Regain Sway at Polls in Mississippi

NYT ^ | June 25, 2014 | Jonathan Weisman

[Oliviaforever]

JACKSON, Miss. — For the first time since President Richard M. Nixon’s divisive “Southern strategy” that sent whites to the Republican Party and blacks to the Democrats, African-American voters have come out in force for a Republican in the Deep South.

Now they are hoping to flex political muscles long atrophied after supporting Senator Thad Cochran on Tuesday in his runoff victory against a Tea Party challenger.

[driftless2]

"southern strategy"

I've always been mystified as to why the big lib media would think down-to-earth, socially conservative , patriotic Southerners would vote for a candidate like McGovern who wanted to change the country into the antithesis of everything they stood for.

Did they really believe Southerners (or conservative voters everywhere) were going to vote for a leftist agenda? That so-called evil "southern strategy" was just liberal furor at their favortite leftist pol McGovern not getting elected.

[Biggirl]

Do a write-in and be done with it.

[SunkenCiv]

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