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Interesting how the parties switched. Reps used to be liberal and Dems conservative.
Comment by Koldcutter at 10/03/2025 at 09:45 UTC
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"I once watched two men in a tussel and by the end of it each was wearing the others jacket"
--Abraham Lincoln when asked about how the parties seem to switch priorities
Comment by iamcleek at 10/03/2025 at 13:25 UTC
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From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that... but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act[1]. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.^([1])[2]
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#cite_note-Boyd-1
Nixon's political strategist Kevin Phillips[3],
3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Phillips_(political_commentator)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern%5C_strategy#Introduction[4][5]
4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern%5C_strategy#Introduction
5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy#Introduction