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In reply to the discussion: Former Slavery Strongholds Harbor Majority Of Nation's Racists, Study Shows [View all]coldmountain
(802 posts)61. Lee Atwater called it the "Southern Strategy" for a good reason and it certainly worked
Exclusive: Lee Atwaters Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy
The forty-two-minute recording, acquired by James Carter IV, confirms Atwaters incendiary remarks and places them in context.
Rick Perlstein November 13, 2012
It has become, for liberals and leftists enraged by the way Republicans never suffer the consequences for turning electoral politics into a cesspool, a kind of smoking gun. The late, legendarily brutal campaign consultant Lee Atwater explains how Republicans can win the vote of racists without sounding racist themselves:
http://www.thenation.com/article/170841/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy#axzz2fajyPV00
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Former Slavery Strongholds Harbor Majority Of Nation's Racists, Study Shows [View all]
coldmountain
Sep 2013
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I agree with the fear of annhilation, it's conservative culture and attitudes that are dying out.
diane in sf
Sep 2013
#13
White people have melanin, the only humans who do not have albinism, they are albinos
Bluenorthwest
Sep 2013
#30
Lint head was a put down back then. The north side rich folks put down the textile mill
Lint Head
Sep 2013
#11
They also believe they can outrun the law and their women all look like Daisy Duke.
Spitfire of ATJ
Sep 2013
#15
Whats Huge is the fact that with the Election of Obama these racists in the south......
busterbrown
Sep 2013
#23
OMG Noirtextatique, I'm from Compton...lived on South Pannes between Myrrh, Alondra, Paramount and
Ecumenist
Sep 2013
#54
Yes, Indeed. I lived there from '70 to'77 and I don't recognise the things that are
Ecumenist
Sep 2013
#69
Oklahoma was a territory in 1859. It wasn't admitted to the union as a state until 1907.
LongTomH
Sep 2013
#51
Not sure where you live but here in Oregon food servers are paid at least the minimum wage
Bluenorthwest
Sep 2013
#32
this is about counties within the South; whites who are minorities locally are the worst racists
carolinayellowdog
Sep 2013
#28
Thanks for clarifying that. The white people in the counties here in MS where the black
LuvNewcastle
Sep 2013
#36
my roots are in eastern NC counties with black majorities-- and Unionist histories
carolinayellowdog
Sep 2013
#46
Next on eyewitness news, reports that Pope Francis...is Catholic? What we've learned may shock you.
NuclearDem
Sep 2013
#31
Most of Virginia really isn't part of the "south" anymore because of immigration
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#53
major immigration source: black northerners whose parents or grandparents were born in the South
carolinayellowdog
Sep 2013
#56
Without the South's being the Republican power base, Al Gore would have been president
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#52
I lived in Northwest Indiana for a time, and the racism there was incredible. n/t
phylny
Sep 2013
#55
Lee Atwater called it the "Southern Strategy" for a good reason and it certainly worked
coldmountain
Sep 2013
#61