Why the southern strategy is fake2/2/2023 ![]() ![]() The South did not go Republican until 1980. Also, the last Democrat to win the South was Jimmy Carter, in 1976. ![]() This was while the KKK still marched into the DNC every four years, in full regalia. Furthermore, African Americans began voting predominantly Democrat in 1936, when FDR ran for re-election. ![]() The problem with this narrative is that of the 31 Dixiecrats in the House and Senate, or who were governors of states, only three of them changed parties. The Democrats left their white robes and hoods in their old desks, which the Republicans then took ownership of. All of the Democrats walked over to the Republican side, and all of the Republicans walked over to the Democrat side. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, all the members of Congress, in both houses, got up and traded places. The ‘Great Switch’ is a Democrat narrative in which, once Lyndon B. ![]()
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