'The politics of racial division': Trump borrows Nixon's 'southern strategy

theguardian ^ | 09/05/2020 | Daniel Strauss

[ChicagoConservative27]

Donald Trump has warned that if Joe Biden replaces him as president the suburbs will be flooded with low-income housing. He has backed supporters who have sometimes violently clashed with Black Lives Matter protesters across the country. The US president has even refrained from directly condemning the actions of a teenager charged with killing two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

And Trump has also called the BLM movement a “symbol of hate”.

With such rhetoric, the president is taking a page or two out of the 1960s “southern strategy”: the playbook Republican politicians such as Richard Nixon and Barry Goldwater used to rally political support among white voters across the south by leveraging racism and white fear of people of color.

[SunkenCiv]

• Black voters are a key as Dean courts South [2003]
• Dean's Flag Comment Stirs Southern Ire [2003]
• Howard Dean says Southerners should stop voting based on "race, guns, God and gays." [2003]
• Dean's Southern Strategy: Reaching Out to Hicks, Rednecks, Hillbillies, Crackers & Nascar Fans [2003]
• Dean and the South: Dems fly the flag of intolerance [2003]
• James Lileks: Just What IS Howard Dean's Southern Strategy? [2003]
• Howard Dean campaigns in Tallahassee (Howard Dean Tells Southerners How to Vote) [2003]
• Dr. Dean and the Pickup Truck [NYT's anti-Southern bigotry?] [2003]
• The Confederate Flag Flap (Dean Thinks He Can Win Down South When Gore Got Shut Out) [2003]
• Dean's bid for South seen as 'perceptive' [2003]
• Dean's New Southern Strategy (Jesse Jr. barf) [2003]
• Dean developing a southern strategy [2003]
• Zogby: Dean Now Leads in South Carolina [2003]
• Chastened Dean Makes Multiracial Appeal in South (Good Read) [2003]
• Dean Crafts Own 'Southern Strategy' [2003]
• Howard Dean's search for the South's poor n' oppressed [2003]
• Howard Dean's search for the South's poor n' oppressed [2003]
• DR. DEAN GETS RELIGION ON SOUTHERN TRAIL (devout liberal panders for Christian votes) [2003]
• Southern discomfort: Howard Dean's whistling wrong Dixie [2003]
• Dean's discourse not winning over the South [2003]
• Dean's act won't fool Southerners [2004]
• Not Just Whistling Dixie; In South Carolina, Howard Dean Warms to His Universal Voter Message [2004]
• Dean's Jesus talk is ringing false in the South [2004]
• Dean, Other DNC Chair Candidates Campaign for South's Endorsement [2005]
• Democrats need Southern strategy [2005]
• Guns, God and the American Flag - (Yankees & Southerners) [2005]
• AMERICA SUCKS!: Ask any (progressive) Democrat [2006]
• Democrats in 2 Southern States Push Bills on Bible Study [Or: Howard Dean Finds Jesus] (NYT) [2006]
• Dean Under Fire From Party Dems; Nearly All Cash Spent [2006]
• A deal with the Democrats: Bernie Sanders ignites passion, controversy ( Barf Alert ) [2006]
• Top 10 Stupid Howard Dean Quotes [2006]
• Millionaire Preppy Howard Dean Wants To Level Playing Field Between The 1% and Rest Of 'Us' [2014]
• WaPo's Kathleen Parker Suggests People with Southern Accents Not 'Smart' or 'Sophisticated' [2014]
• Howard Dean: Republicans Should Leave America [VIDEO] [2014]
• Dean's bluntness plays in the South [2003]
• Dean supporters decry liberal label( Howard Dean stereotypes southerns) [2003]
• Howard Dean: "Republicans Aren't American!" [2014]

[FreedomPoster]

After Obamagate, the American Left owes Nixon a HUGE apology.

[rfp1234]

Idiots. Wallace, not Nixon, won the Deep South states in 1968.

[Fedora]

The left misportrays Nixon’s Southern Strategy just as they do Trump.

[Henry Hnyellar]

The Nixon strategy is a myth. Even if it were true, the “South” has changed drastic since the 60s. More Northerner now live there than native Sotherners.

[lepton]

With such rhetoric, the president is taking a page or two out of the 1960s “southern strategy”: the playbook Republican politicians such as Richard Nixon and Barry Goldwater used to rally political support among white voters across the south by leveraging racism and white fear of people of color.

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heh. That’s not what the academic-named strategy was at all.

The strategy was to appeal to voters in the border states who were still racist Democrats by toning down arguing with them about that and instead point out economic benefits.