Note also that it was because of the Goldwater movement that Strom Thurmond switched parties, providing the edge in 1980, 1984, 1992 and 2000. The Thurmond switch also provided the impetus for appointing Conservatives to the Supreme Court.
Also, note Bill Rusher of National Review wrote a book about the building of the new majority on these key switches in the mid 1970s. (He even called me, personally, for my thoughts in that connection.)
Personally, I would advocate pardoning D'Souza. But if he is a critic of Southern values--being himself, I believe a relative new comer to our shores--I find an arrogant need to attack the rooted population, if that is what he has done, utterly contemptible.
D’Souza once tweeted a photograph of Hillary that included a small Battle Flag in the background- D’Souza believing that that would add to the evidence of Hillary’s moral depravity.
Of course the photo turned out to be fake, but Dinesh’s pc moral preening was the real thing. Recent imports usually drink the neocon koolaid which includes demonizing the South. Makes them feel virtuous and superior to the natives.
The most vile thing D’Souza did was the same stunt that Frum pulled, targeting paleos as the enemy of the civilized world. Frum chose Buchanan, D’Souza targeted Sam Francis and pretty well wrecked his career. Sam Francis arguably was the proto Trump, defining years before the coalition and policies that Trump champions.
A Sam Francis archive:
http://www.sobran.com/fgf/francis/archive2008.shtml