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About twenty years, actually. It basically all started with Gingrich's antics.
Comment by Minion_of_Cthulhu at 15/10/2018 at 03:53 UTC
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It started with the Southern Strategy[1] back in the late 60s when the GOP intentionally courted Southern racist whites to bring them into the Republican Party to turn them into a large, reliable, single-minded voting bloc.